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Continuing on from yesterday’s blog and highlighting some thoughts from the article written by Peter McLennan in 1998 called ‘Bombing Shelter – Graffiti Art in Aotearoa’ (Pavement Magazine) we’re able to read views expressed by graffiti artists and make a note of the efforts of community agencies to minimise the effects of widespread graffiti.
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Respectability is an odd creature. Especially because of the lengths we might go to capture it. We have a moth-like fascination with it, get caught in the headlights of its high beam and lose our bearings altogether. Strange that fascination isn’t it!
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Do you ever feel humbuggerish? Strictly speaking there’s no such word. The noun humbug has one of a number of meanings but I refer to it here by this meaning:
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