Positive graffiti: From Banksy to high school students
How the tidbits of encouragement are percieved by students.
Before popular street artists like Banksy emerged in the early 1990s, the word “graffiti” had the negative stigma of being deviant-related. However at Potomac Falls, one sees a plethora of positive and inspiring “vandalisms” across campus. In AP Literature, students are covering “talking points,” one of which is “a universal truth,” or something that can be pulled out of context and applied inclusively; the photography of graffiti at Potomac Falls epitomize the idea of “universal truths,” with sayings such as “Hakuna Matata,” and “I love…”