I live in the city. If you repaint it then they will just come back and tag again. I know I was apart of an art Gruip that was making paintings for a building at the local park that kept getting tagged. They kept trying to pain over it. They got tired of it and it was to costly. Now that the art is up nobody touches it.

I would've loved the idea Alora Campbell tells about a lot more. I don't like what this guy did at all...

It's not art.

I think the owners of a property have the right to do whatever they want with their walls (as long as it's legal). I'm willing to bet the taggers were just young kids trying to be cool by tagging without permission and not getting caught; their tags showed no artistic skill beyond holding a spray can. On the other hand, based on the fact that they let themselves be photographed, I'm sure that the artists here do have the permission of the property owners to use their walls and create art installations that parody street tags. My point? Even if you think street tags are art, it's not right to display them on another person's property without permission. The owners have the right to do whatever they want over that illegal "art", including covering it up with blank paint, murals, or artwork that makes fun of them.

"the expressionism and voice of a graffiti artist" Seriously? These were not artists, just bored teenagers. There is graffiti art. This was not. And if it illegal, it has no right to stay.

Yes, exactly, that was the purpose. Tagging is not artful graffiti, it's just b******t from bored teenagers. So there is no art destroyed, indeed it is turned into art by deleting the original tag.

You don't get it, because you never read about what it means and where and when and why it first started. So how can you judge something you never bothered to learn about? No one cares about your opinion. Graffiti tags are not made for you to enjoy their artistic side or for you to "get them".

Sorry, I wanted to reply to Henryk.

Pretty graffiti I can honestly call art exists but such tags don't have anything to do with it (at least from my point of view). Art should send a message better than "I have a spray and I don't care about the owner of this wall".

Unless it's not supposed to be art so... what's the point of it? I'd really like to understand what's the reason good enough to draw on someone else's walls.