Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Graffiti

Paris is full of graffiti - Papa says it's Italian. I see it everywhere, and I wonder why Italians want to paint Paris like this ;-). I asked Papa why it's on walls, trains, inside tunnels, who writes graffiti, and if the graffiti were done with pens.

Papa said it was illegal, and that it was usually done by 15 year-old boys: those wanting to tag walls of the Paris Metro sneak into stations at closing time, and hide out in the passages. Then, with spray paint can in hand, they set to work.

We went to a restaurant for lunch, where there were pens put out, and the walls of the toilet were covered with graffiti. I had a go of it myself, and drew a car.

I'm a graffiti artist

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