Growing up with Graffiti Vetta

When I Think about Graffiti I think about my Brother because even though he is not the best at graffiti he does live that kind of hip hop style. He finds that time where he is happy and this he feels at home which I think is pretty awesome. So the picture that we have here is when he 1^st started his graffiti and he tagged a building and when I seen this we were rather young and it struck me as awesome kind of; that someone that I knew could do such an awesome thing that I have never seen before. And this brought me to the empowering self.

I think his love for graffiti reminds me of the empowering self-piece, not because he is has female characteristic, but at the same time making a name for his self like women did because they were the underdog in the hip hop culture, and they were like you know what I don’t care I am going to do what I have to do. Being fly girls, to girls that where well rounded for the whole community. So after his 1^st time tagging, he eventually made it to the point where he would make start making pieces for his friends, but he would always keep his original tag with his name one it knowing that he made something and was happy with it. I thought this piece was kind of cool because it brought his female friends to come out and do their thing too.

Here is a piece that one of his friends sent him the style is similar in a sense, but it shows that they want and from his lady friends that this was something that they wanted to get involved in as well! This shows that he opened the gate to his female friends that they too can do and be whatever they want to do. A friend of his who goes by “BOMBED IT” did a few pieces that he was able to get a chance to watch her in her glory and she is really good in the graffiti world. With that being said it also goes back to the female empowerment, and how they can do what men can do. What I think is also cool about “BOMBED IT” is that she is not your typical black male that you see tagging but she is a mixed female so that also brings in multiethnicity because it is not only black males these days. There are different variety of tagger in this day and age and I think that’s extremely awesome. “BOMBED IT” as you can see is a very artistic young lady and one day I hope I can be just as artistic, but maybe not on a wall!

                                                                                                                                                                  -L.S.