Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property.
Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings.
(sand graffiti at the Chruch of the Virgin de Guadalupe)
(plants growing on the side of the building create a texture like graffiti)
(personalized buses use graffiti to distinguish one from another)
marking or painting property without the property owner's consent is considered defacement and vandalism, which is a punishable crime.
(nature creates a decorative graffiti, growing moss between sidewalk bricks)
Graffiti may also express underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression.
