Conversation on my Garage Door: From Barbarella to Obama

My garage door has become a hotbed of attention lately. A few years ago I had a tagging problem because my house is on on such a busy street. The city was sending me threatening letters (deal with graffiti or pay heavy fine) so I painted a Barbarella image on my garage door. I thought, surely even graffiti artists won’t paint over someone else’s art…my impression is street artists do have their own ethic… Aside from a few, small tags I could easily paint over, the garage was safe for a couple of years. Then a few weeks ago someone [...]