Kuala Lumpur-Graffiti in the city.

When commuting in the city, be it using fast train or car or bus, I usually gonna look out the window and observing the surroundings. The buildings, the towers, the houses, the shop, the people walking at the pedestrian, the color of the buildings, the signboard, and many more. Reminds me of how life is so colorful. When I was in Kuala Lumpur, I came across many GRAFFITI on the wall and the side of the building and backlane. I think it’s safe to call it as graffiti? The text telling us message of good and bad...
Graffiti. Is it art or is just vandalism? Perhaps by now, after numerous articles in the popular media have posed this question some answers need to be provided. Even better, a realisation that this is actually the wrong question to ask. A more interesting one could be to consider whether or not graffiti is strong enough as an art form to function within mainstream contemporary art. Or is its recognition and respect only to be found within its own alternative sub culture?

The graffiti of these neighborhoods has emerged as form of expression,  a form of storytelling that is the inner city’s way of expressing the social conditions that exist

Graffiti unmasks the social stratification and the divide between rich and poor within a city

This is a common phenomenon, when people of the upper and middle class see graffiti they typically react negatively and deem that area of town where the graffiti is prevalent to be sub par and derelict.