Graffiti talks: Paint the city and protest

We always complain about graffiti because it messes up buildings and makes streets look like slums.

For many youngsters it is the only form of social expression that they find really makes sense to them; that has impact.

I know the eThekwini Municipality put up a Graffiti Wall at the Skateboard Park on the Beachfront a couple of years ago - I must go down and see what has happened to it.

Then there is graffiti like this - a very powerful medium for social protest. Some of these remind me a little of the wall murals in Belfast and Derry in Northern Ireland.

It would be a great way to create social awareness, especailly for something like HIV/AIDS - think of all those ugly bare walls, just waiting to be painted and all the creative young people aching to give expression to their feelings.

Corporates could even sponsor them - a little logo here and there would look cool - handpainted on the wall. (Look great in the SR portfolio too!)

These images are all from .matrix project, a blog by SEAN PATRICK COON, an experience designer and digital activist, living and working out of Greensboro, North Carolina,USA.