Friday, November 15, 2013

Concluding Thoughts

From our observations, our group was able to note the presence of the subculture of graffiti artists. Within this subculture, there are still distinctive differences between those who create graffiti and those who create street art (based on the different types of objectified cultural capital that they attempt to acquire.) However, whether something is street art or graffiti, it is still a part of a subculture attempting to dominate the public space. Our observations along Guadalupe St./'The Drag' and the surrounding West Campus area led us to notice many instances of graffiti, rivaling street artists and deeply conceptual murals that we had never noticed before. In this manner, this project allowed us to view the 'strange in the familiar' and employ the sociological imagination when viewing a street we each walk along countless times each day.

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