Graffiti Description

I took a picture of a graffiti located in street 91 with Carrera 16^th; it is a very big graffiti. It starts on the door of a shop and it goes all the way over the wall of the shop and ends right were the shop ends. The graffiti is a huge face with a small arm pointing towards a sentence the artist wrote, which says: “we are painted on the wall”.

On the face, there are two white eyes with black pupils, the eyebrows are also black and thick, the nose starts from the middle of the eye and as it hoes down to the tip of the nose it gets bigger, under the nose there is an enormous mouth, with red lips, showing teeth that are white but very disorganized. The mouth is open as if it was shouting and you can see the back of the mouth painted in red and black. To the right you can see the arm, compared to the face it is much smaller, the arm starts right next to the mouth and ends next to the sentence. The sentence is painted in black letters, it is written in capital letters which you can read clearly, the back of the letters is yellow which highlights the text.

In relation to the theme I think it is a social protest. They are expressing that they are not being heard or seen; someone else is ignoring them. The face is showing anger and the bigger part of it is the mouth, which is the part of your body that best lets express yourself and by which you can make someone listen to you. This graffiti might be trying to show their support for graffiti, and to the liberty of using walls or public spaces to express themselves.

When you see the graffiti you get the feeling of being angry, being against something, you feel the need to protest and support what the graffiti is fighting for.