Graffiti woes continue in Kent

Gang members are feeling misrepresented and can’t understand why. As we attract aesthetic beauty into our lives, we work out the dirt, the misunderstood, and we create our homes and yards with a mixture of practicality, beauty and style (developed or undeveloped).

Gang members are feeling misrepresented and can’t understand why.

As we attract aesthetic beauty into our lives, we work out the dirt, the misunderstood, and we create our homes and yards with a mixture of practicality, beauty and style (developed or undeveloped). In the way of our ideal environment, aside from the mess we left behind, is the feeling of dealing with the problems that we didn’t know we had.

However, those who tag what I like to call “lifestyle symbols” on others’ property, in an attempt to earn respect while being subject to negative influences of gang life cannot truly take ownership of anything at all.

Is the economy so bad that all of our artists are joining gangs to get their supplies to create terrible art? Across from the skate park is a lot of land – owned by whom – unused since it was a nursery over a decade ago. As a perfect solution to our overemphasis on sports as a city, and our under representation of other ways to express our culture and artistry, I suggest an ongoing arts-and-crafts community center across from the skate park on 240th and 116th so children and adults alike can display their cultural roots in an ongoing process of learning while doing.

Nicholas Epperson

Kent




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