I like to walk along the South-West Coastal path in Cornwall, when on holiday. The scenery is very like these cliffs. If I found some scrote daubing the rocks there, I'd pitch him into the sea, and his paint after him.
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Clinton Huxley wrote:I like to walk along the South-West Coastal path in Cornwall, when on holiday. The scenery is very like these cliffs. If I found some scrote daubing the rocks there, I'd pitch him into the sea, and his paint after him.
The trouble with graffiti there is that it's such a beautiful spot. Any manmade art is going to look shit in comparison.
And sure enough it does.
Put it somewhere even more ugly than the art. But in this case, it would take a lot of searching.
Knowing the Irish, someone will go there with some power kit and obliterate it. Hopefully. I might do it myself.
I'm going near there tomorrow, but it's too cold to bother, this time of year.
While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
mistermack wrote:The trouble with graffiti there is that it's such a beautiful spot. Any manmade art is going to look shit in comparison.
And sure enough it does.
Put it somewhere even more ugly than the art. But in this case, it would take a lot of searching.
mistermack wrote:
Knowing the Irish, someone will go there with some power kit and obliterate it. Hopefully. I might do it myself.
I'm going near there tomorrow, but it's too cold to bother, this time of year.
Wait, you're going to be in this neck of the woods tomorrow?
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mistermack wrote:The trouble with graffiti there is that it's such a beautiful spot. Any manmade art is going to look shit in comparison.
And sure enough it does.
Put it somewhere even more ugly than the art. But in this case, it would take a lot of searching.
Knowing the Irish, someone will go there with some power kit and obliterate it. Hopefully. I might do it myself.
I'm going near there tomorrow, but it's too cold to bother, this time of year.
I'm not giving a general endorsement here of defacing natural wonders. But someone went to a lot of effort for this one, and I think it's pretty.
The green careening planet
spins blindly in the dark
so close to annihilation.
This graffiti has no worth, it's the same crap one can see on the side of Tube trains, warehouses, motorway bridges and derelict houses all over the country. It's an egotistical despoilation of an area of scenic beauty. If difficulty enhances the "worth" of such a piece, go and do it on the dome of a nuclear power station or in Helmand province. I might be impressed then.
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
mistermack wrote:The trouble with graffiti there is that it's such a beautiful spot. Any manmade art is going to look shit in comparison.
And sure enough it does.
Put it somewhere even more ugly than the art. But in this case, it would take a lot of searching.
mistermack wrote:
Knowing the Irish, someone will go there with some power kit and obliterate it. Hopefully. I might do it myself.
I'm going near there tomorrow, but it's too cold to bother, this time of year.
Wait, you're going to be in this neck of the woods tomorrow?
I am. To visit my aunt who is dying. She's in St Joseph's in Ennis.
Not a fun trip.
While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
mistermack wrote:The trouble with graffiti there is that it's such a beautiful spot. Any manmade art is going to look shit in comparison.
And sure enough it does.
Put it somewhere even more ugly than the art. But in this case, it would take a lot of searching.
Knowing the Irish, someone will go there with some power kit and obliterate it. Hopefully. I might do it myself.
I'm going near there tomorrow, but it's too cold to bother, this time of year.
I'm not giving a general endorsement here of defacing natural wonders. But someone went to a lot of effort for this one, and I think it's pretty.
Effort, danger and difficulty getting there is absolutely no excuse for defacing areas of natural beauty. Once you set a precedent, it becomes a free-for-all, and suddenly the natural beauty of all the bits of rock face that we can get to ourselves is lost. You can't clean a sedimentary rock-face without taking off the weathered surface layer to reveal the clean rock underneath, which would be as much of a scar as the paint, and for years. The paint kills the lichens and other things that take decades to grow.