Exploring Global Graffiti: Art or Message?

**We haven’t opened our collection of graffiti in a while so here’s another selection of graffiti from The Intentional Travelers photographs**.

Graffiti comes in all types from street art, to social protests, political commentary to simple ugliness, but at times it leaves us wondering about just what the message is. Below ia just a small fraction of graffiti we’ve collected from around the world.

Above and to the right a street artist works on a mural in Valparaiso, Chile or “Valpo” to the locals,. The neighborhoods of Valparaiso are the mecca of street art in Chile and perhaps even in all the world. These neighborhoods of the port city attract famous graffiti artists and muralists from all over the world who flock to leave their creationa on its walls. There is so much here it would take weeks to see it all…