If These Walls Could Talk – Preserving Graffiti Art

Everybody has heard somebody use that old adage “If these walls could talk”; this statement is usually taken in referenced to the history and events that take place within the confines of a building with a somewhat lively reputation.

Going right back to ancient and pre-historic times people have used pictures, illustrations and of course in the modern day graffiti art to get their feelings and emotions across.

For cavemen it has been  suggested the drawing pictures was for communication purposes or religion, in ancient Egyptian times they used hieroglyphs including letters, numbers and images to create what is now seen as a record of the times.

As the years, decades and centuries have passed art has progressed massively in style and purpose. In the current era perhaps we should be looking at graffiti art as an important sign of the times and as a historical record of the era as with previous art styles.

If you think about buildings such as prisons, police stations and other buildings with lots of history and many different characters inhabiting their walls you will find hundreds, if not thousands of individual illustrations. These drawings, words and slogans could be determined as graffiti art.

In a thousand years any drawings like this could be seen as historical records and artefacts of how people felt at the time being incarcerated and expressing their feelings through art. If graffiti art is not preserved then a big part of history will disappear as if it never existed.

One person’s drawings are seen as somebody else’s nonsense however there is always a reason and logic behind anybody deciding to create any form of art. As a creator and retailer of graffiti art, WhoArtNow understand the importance of individual feelings being channelled through art, we can only hope it is preserved and used for future inspiration.