Something everyone should scope out, and take minute to see how they feel about it.
Lets say Montreal made graffiti legal tomorrow… what are the odds that every blank piece of pavement or brick or concrete ends up looking like the walls of a bathroom stall.
Leaving it illegal after seeing what Peter Gibson (aka Roadsworth) was doing in the streets seems unsatisfactory as well.
I can’t help but think the only way forward is for artists to make known what they can do, and just maybe stir up a a demand to actually generate some grants and commissions to do this kind of work legitimately. Or rewrite the laws to define graffiti as marks made on public surfaces which are non-rad. But graffiti is a great word. Perhaps we call the sort of stuff Roadsworth puts out graffiti, and rename the bad stuff.
Shittiti.
Which would not include this.