Journal week 6

               Place and scene are important to help convey the messages the graffiti is meant to display. The inappropriate message written on the 9/11 graffiti wall “Zeppelin Rocks” was written in the wrong place. The wall had a specific purpose and that message did not fit the criteria. The overall scene on the wall that had quotes such as “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”- Gandhi was one of remorse and opposition to the People’s reaction to the attack. The “Zeppelin Rocks” graffiti was out of place and very disrespectful.

                The most interesting part of the reading in my opinion was the section that talked about how writing on trains or other vehicles can help spread messages to a wider audience and create different scenes depending on where the graffiti is read. I would say that generally graffiti has a very local feel to it and is done by unprofessional artists. The local aspect of the graffiti can potentially help with its rhetoric because the people reading it are obviously in the same place and might have dealt with the issue the graffiti is addressing first hand.

                I think that the reading over analyzed the “Zeppelin Rocks” graffiti too much. I immediately thought its purpose was to either point out how the graffiti wall was a bad idea or the student thought people were over reacting to 9/11. I don’t agree with either reason I just think that it was nothing more than an immature joke. I also found it extremely ironic how the graffiti wall was “vandalized” considering that the primary use of graffiti is to vandalize walls by illegally painting in public areas.