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participants’ comments on their experiences with "senior street art"
 
I see the things different now, too, more intensive. I really don’t mind if there is a face on the streets, not just bare walls.
I enjoy, and know that not everything can be perfect. In our society, every thing has to be perfect all the time.

Graffiti doesn’t unite people, because there are different opinions on it, but it produces communication, encounters.
T
 
If my attitude has changed with this course, I don’t know. My interest just got higher.

It’s like with music, if you hear it for the first time, you’re maybe…, well, I always listen three times to new music. The first time, it is often difficult, and that it was with graffiti, too. Then you start growing into it, playing around, having fun… yes, there was a lot of joy. It happens when you don’t see something as work anymore, and deliver yourself to enjoy.

You become very sensitive exploring colours. With art in general, everything takes a new turn.
R
 
I don’t see beauty in tags on houses. They are only understandable for the scene, knowing each others tags. I don’t want to deny the adolescents doing that have their reasons. But I am not a part of that scene, and will never be.

The communication (through Graffiti) is a little one-sided. If I put up something on the wall which is important to me, how do I experience a reaction? Only if I stay around listening to what people have to say about it, if they say what they think about it at all.

I think, for me, as a single person, that isn’t the thing to do. Anonymity isn’t really my thing, I have to admit.
E
 
Graffiti are partly undigested, but it is information. Graffiti also are a hint that it can’t go on just like that: Look at us, we are also there. If you look at nature, you see cycles. If we take out something of that cycle, we are taking away information to work with.

I find it so strange to criminalize things that are really so natural.
S





senior street art

a participatory and intergenerational project on visually reclaiming street and city