At lunchtime, Joe Growhoski noticed this new and large graffiti at Centre and Greenough streets in Jamaica Plain.
By 1:30 p.m., a crew was already removing it, he reports:
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Ignorance is...
By Sally
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:18pm
slapping up stupid, ugly-ass graffiti on a handsome old building on a well-trafficked street. I only wish they'd had to clean it off themselves.
i thought
By Scumquistador
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:22pm
it looked rather nice
Ignorance is not knowing art is subjective.
By Greene
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:47pm
and scoffing at a beautiful expression of human emotion on the side of an ugly old piece of brick. I only wish you'd have the creativity and emotional inspiration to paint one yourself.
Ignorance is not knowing the context of that brick
By adamg
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:50pm
Are you familiar with that particular building? Some find it attractive and interesting just the way it is. And taggers familiar with the area know that if they really feel compelled to spray-yawp their feelings, the Northeast Corridor is not that far away and has long ago been consigned to their urge to breathe in spray paint.
Oh, hah. I thought my contrarian intent was clearer. Sorry.
By Greene
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:57pm
I think the building looks fine AND the tag looks fine. And I also think neither opinion matters since the whole thing's subjective.
I thought by posting essentially an untenable meaningless "No YOU'RE ugly!" it would sort of exemplify the idea that neither statement was really tenable or meaningful.
Of course, this is all
By fox_orian
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 3:51pm
Of course, this is all assuming the stance that once graffiti is put up on a wall, it should stay there because 'art is subjective.' However, nether the tagger not the people walking down the street have any say on whether or not the property owner was looking to have some unsolicited human emotion slapped on the side of their building. Since they've taken immediate response to remove it, I take it they are not open to advertising their walls as being a blank canvas no matter what people think about it. And that should be respected.
get your own goddamned bricks!
By bostnkid
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:54pm
ignorance is destroying property that belongs to others.
"destroyed"
By Scumquistador
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 3:29pm
yeah the building looks fit for condemnation now
Forest Hills
By aging cynic
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 6:10pm
Went to a wake across from the T station last night. Mentioned to a fellow waiter in the queue to get in "that things have sure changed since I was here last". She nodded and pointed to a nearly new commercial truck parked next door. totally wrecked by taggers. The sense of entitlement is breathtaking.
thats an interesting story
By Scumquistador
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 6:46pm
im not sure what it has to do with what i said though :) sorry for your loss
actually
By aging cynic
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 1:57am
my friend's 90 year old mother. Nice lady but it was time. You see no similarity between tagging a building and tagging a new truck? Yikes.
Yikes
By Scumquistador
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 3:50am
Get off your high horse. The comment you replied to was clearly chastising the absurd hyperbole of calling a building "destroyed" because it was painted and can now be cleaned.
Just because you decided to use uhub as your diary and saw fit to mention that you saw graffiti somewhere else doesn't mean your reply has anything to do with the comment I actually made.
scumQ "destroyed"
By bostnkid
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 8:55am
you keep saying someone said "destroyed" I don't see it there. maybe you're tired?
no
By Scumquistador
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 11:51am
[img]http://i.imgur.com/8ocXWaS.png?2[/img]
i'm really not
unless you are going to nit pick that i changed the tense of the word to reflect the fact that time is linear. maybe you're blind? or maybe you're obsessive compulsive and the change in tense was too much?
idk, if you want to keep speculating about each other, i'm game
Coo, story, bro
By erik g
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 7:13pm
n/t
Wow--thanks.
By Sally
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 3:43pm
I had no idea that art was subjective. We never discussed that concept when I was working on my art major. No sirree.
Can you post your address here--or your parents', that'll work--and I'll come by in the middle of the night and put up some "beautiful expression of human emotion" on the front?
lol dang girl
By Scumquistador
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 3:51pm
you spittin some serious NaCl
Why's it gotta be the middle of the night?
By Greene
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 4:29pm
Paint dries fine in the sun.
Obvious.
By Somebody Else.
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 7:57pm
Makes for a better reveal, duh.
Ignorance is not remembering that...
By whyaduck
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 5:20pm
painting on buildings, such as this, is illegal. If someone is so moved to express human emotion via paint, beautiful or not, canvas, which one can purchase in any good art supply store, is readily available.
Maybe someday you can
By ShamusJP
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 6:46pm
Maybe someday you can purchase your own piece of property and pay taxes on it. Then you can paint stupid shit on it!
Ignorance is not knowing that
By roadman
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 11:19am
grafitti is vandalism, not art.
It's actually both.
By anon
Mon, 03/14/2016 - 5:55am
It's actually both.
i suspect that the vandal loves you posting this photo series
By anon
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 7:23pm
for those of us who didn't have to see this antisocial crap in-person.
Hope they take down all the
By anon
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:58pm
Hope they take down all the advertisements and Banksy pieces too.
Really?
By anon
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 3:22pm
Whats so difficulty about differentiating between purchased ad space and/or businesses advertisement and an adult coloring on someones property without their consent.
This piece is 100x more
By anon
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 7:42pm
This piece is 100x more aesthetically pleasing than all the billboards and advertisements all over Centre Street. Just because "most" of the ads are on private property with permission doesn't make it okay or justifiable when those ads pollute the public space and the vision to everyone who goes outside. Graffiti is a visual element in the same way but while most graffiti may not have permission from the owner of the surface its put on, at least it can be beautiful or thought provoking. Ads are always trash. Not saying graffiti without permission is okay but I find the double standards people have between billboards, graffiti, and "good" graffiti to be silly. Nobody would be complaining if a new billboard popped up on that sidewalk, and if this was a Banksy ya'll would be oogling over it with dollar signs in your eyes.
O RLY?
By adamg
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 9:15pm
Nobody would be complaining if a billboard went up there? You're not from JP, are you?
Spraying to mark territory
By anon
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 4:04pm
I see this graffiti, or the graffiti on mailboxes, or the graffiti along the Orange Line, as visual pissing to mark territory. Marking territory as would a dog.
It's also theft: stealing a surface that doens't belong to the person weilding the spray can.
JP is lately getting plenty of graffiti pollution. Most of this grafitti is without sense of interesting composition, color theory or perspective. Paid advertisements have better design that the big fat letters that amount to "I'm here" or "This is mine."
Want to create art? Buy a canvas or a wall. Pay for the surface. But don't steal from everyone else the surfaces (visual or physical) that belong to all.
No idea this existed, but I'm
By 2
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 4:29pm
No idea this existed, but I'm not Centre St anymore. Personally, I thought the tag looked fine and it appeared to try to be thought-provoking, whether you hated it or not. It's a hell of a lot better than gang tags, which are pretty obvious.
I just think it's funny that it happened off of Greenough of all streets.
My friends own the condo on
By anon
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 4:35pm
My friends own the condo on the first floor right there. I wonder what they think of the use of their property for the expression of another's artistic opinion.
your friends own a condo in boston
By Scumquistador
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 6:03pm
i wonder if they think about other people at all
We have a winner -- thank you
By anon
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 11:19pm
We have a winner -- thank you for reminding us that ignorance is strength, comrade
Yeah!
By boo_urns
Thu, 03/10/2016 - 11:23pm
Communities don't exist in 2016!
Why the generalized insult?
By Daan
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 8:02am
That sounds to me like an angry statement made for the purpose of lashing out. Why so angry so often?
I own a condo that is rented out. It's also managed because I know that a professional management company will do a good job because I want my tenants to happy in their home. Not because I'm altruistic. I have a selfish reason. A tenant happy in their home is a tenant who will be less hassle and will hopefully be a tenant that doesn't damage the condo. But the irony is that in my selfishness I do make decisions that are strongly influenced by thinking about my tenants. A virtuous circle.
So sorry to blow your misanthropic bubble but I am a condo owner who also cares about the people that my decisions impact (and the irony is that I've never met my tenants - don't need to, my job is to simply provide them with a pleasant residence where they can make a good home).
Perhaps the pot is calling the kettle black?
Damn, scumquistador. My
By anon
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 2:16pm
Damn, scumquistador. My husband and I own and live in our Boston condo. We worked for many years and built up a savings for a downpayment to get this place. We pay our bills on time. We do a little bit of volunteer work in the neighborhood and contribute to local causes. We don't deface other people's property now or before we owned and rented. Do you have a problem with that?
Why can't they vandalize the
By maria c
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 7:58am
Why can't they vandalize the front of the property that THEY own or live at?
Because
By Sock_Puppet
Fri, 03/11/2016 - 5:03pm
That would require a long form permit
I would love to sponsor this artist to do it again.
By rainmaster
Tue, 03/15/2016 - 5:21pm
Seems like our neighbors in JP have nothing else to complain about. You live in a city not the suburbs get used to it or start a neighborhood watch to stop the crime of vandalism. Oh I forgot the only time these residents notice anything is on the way into or home from work. The same amount of time we get to notice them as neighbors.