Photo editorial: An Odd Game Of Tag
Someone paints graffiti. Someone paints over the graffiti. Someone scrawls more graffiti over the paint-over. Someone paints over the graffiti over the paint-over of the graffiti over the paint-over.
And so it goes.
In a public display of a never-ending battle, a concrete retaining wall next door to the Target Shopping Center on Lawndale Avenue provides clear evidence of the struggle to keep private property free of the garish doodles of guerrilla "artists." A city ordinance requires property owners to clean vandalized walls.
Problem is, the process seems to take forever.
Walls throughout the city bear the now-you-see-them, now-you-don't scribblings. Witness the scrawlings on the empty Winn-Dixie at East Cone Boulevard and Summit Avenue, many of them gang-related.
In the case of the Lawndale graffiti, no sooner do the clean-up patches dry over the offending markings than someone uses them as convenient canvases for the next round of markings.
As of this writing, the wall is again graffiti-free. But the day is young.
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