Tiny Angel Graffiti Tag

For those wondering about the little angel image painted around the neighborhood like graffiti, here the flyer explaining it. I have included a photo of the image painted on the corner of my driveway to the right. Click here to read the letter that accompanied the 

flyer about the image left at my door. It was delivered a few weeks ago. The angel image is small but apparently getting noticed. What do you think about it. Feel free to leave your comment about the new graffiti.

Comments

[Claire]

I can fully understand homeowners having a problem with something being spray painted on their private property no matter how positive the intended message (I spotted one sprayed on someone's limestone wall at the edge of their property, and that would have upset me much more than at the edge of my driveway). We don't seem to have a substantial graffiti problem in our area, but I've lived in places with significant issues (I remember more grafitti cleanup days than park cleanup days) and I'd be concerned about where embracing any grafitti could lead. Anyway, as far as we know it's not a symbol marking territory, but you never know, a lot of things gather meanings not originally intended or are replicated by others in ways not originally intended.

I could see this sort of thing approached like the folks who spray paint addresses on curbs, leave the flyer and let the homeowner decide if they'd like the symbol sprayed on the curb in front of their house. I think that most likely this was intended as a "random act of kindness" but the folks out doing it probably weren't as thoughful or considerate as they should have been.

[JAK]

Whether you like the message or not it's still Graffiti. Once we allow one person to put a little Graffiti symbol then we are giving the green light for others to do the same. Then inevitably we'll have Graffiti with larger symbols and messages and their meaning may be less concise and possibly a bit controversial in the eyes of some. So then the question arises as to which symbols, markings and tags do we allow and who do we allow to do this? Do we really want to get bogged down with regulating Graffiti? I say no Graffiti of any kind. No exceptions.

[malcolm]

I would prefer communicating that our community is a positive, inclusive place (by showing the stamp), instead of saying nothing (i.e. the grey spot). Why wouldn't we want our community to have a reputation that we not only are concerned for ourselves, but also our neighbors?

I'm not suggesting you need to give your neighbor a hug each morning (which actually might be a good idea). Instead, I'm sure you hope when you are away from your home and something suspicious occurs, that your neighbors would look out for you, that you in turn would look out for them.

Otherwise we're just a collection of homes, not a neighborhood.