According to the word reference dictionary, the word graffiti means " markings, as initials, slogans, or drawings, written, spray-painted, orsketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom, or the like". This term is also asocciated with the street art. People go to the streets and then they start painting and writting on the wall what they want to communicate with spray paint. We can not deny how effective the graffiti is to express our disagreement with the society issues. It´s is a different way to speak without using our voice, it is a nonverbal communication.
In Barranquilla we can find many graffities on the wall. Graffities done by acción poética are very famous in our city. The group was born in Mexico and now we can find it in many countries. They are used to write thoughts of love created by the members of the group. As we can observe in the photo below, they write they thoughts of love:
We can also find other kindof graffities, like the ones done by "Revolver", who do paintings on the wall with a strong message:
As we could see, graffiti is another way to express ourself, but unfortunately is not completly acceptable. People complain about graffiti because they see it as a vandalism. They don´t consider graffiti as the art it is but as a wall painting done by criminals. It´s pretty dissapointing that people who express in this way have to go the jail (in many cases) because society can not accept them. I think that as art and a way of expression, we should let them do the graffities, because at the end of the road, it´s nonverbal communication.
