Is this the same sort of enterprise that produced that frightening bee/mutant woman/tea-drinker hybrid on the side of a building near Dulwich library, and the house further down Lordship Lane which is a hotch-potch of clashing scribbles, with the talented subsumed beneath the merely enthusiastic?

Some graffiti is good/interesting (the pugilists near Goose Green), but most is complete tosh that gets tired-looking very quickly. It used to be ephemeral by its very nature, and as part of its charm, but the giant pieces created by people given free rein end up grotty very quickly. I'm thinking of the station underpass here....

I'm a big fan of our shop-shutter art in FH, but I think painting large brick walls requires a more measured approach than this festival suggests. It's a lot easier to replace a shop shutter than to clean paint off a porous brick wall.

Careful what you wish for.

love, an old fuddy-duddy.