In an article I found called "Artists On the Edge" by Yvette Cabreraon at www.missionandstate.org. The author starts her article off with a simple introduction sentence, "This place isn't meant for everyone." She then gets into a fully descriptive paragraph on the experience it is on the trail towards this mystery wall in between the Goleta and Santa Barbara area. She describes how the trail leads to an abandoned campsite where there are old trails of spray paint cans which she says are "left like artifacts." Through all this mess she comes across a huge patch of weeds which covers what she describes as a wall "that goes on for yards" and how it, "explodes into a noisy canvas of color, blending industrial, futuristic, expressionism." But she then raises the questions, "is this graffiti or art? Did artists or outlaws do this?" She then responds with, "the answer can depend on your perspective." She starts talking after about how the Santa Barbara community handles graffiti and how young artists basically end up paying for committing what is considered a crime to every one else but the artist. But at the end of her article she says "the art versus graffiti question may keep for debate, but staring at the fusion of aerosol and attitude out here in the middle of nowhere, one thing is clear! This wall has a message, someone used it to make a point." Which in my opinion the point is that graffiti art is ment to bring beauty and tell a message to the world through the expression of paint, letters, and creativity.
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