Banksy’s great, but it’s the witty and heartfelt local graffiti that fascinates me | Hannah Jane Parkinson

From scrawled love notes to subversive jokes, these messages make me smile

There is the kind of graffiti or street art that breaks out and goes on to bigger and better things. The Banksy works that are removed from their place of birth and sold for hundreds of thousands, for instance, or the murals on the West Bank wall.

What I’m infatuated with is the more discreet, local graffiti; spontaneous doodles found in unexpected places. The messages that can make visits to the loo a reading experience almost as pleasurable as sitting in a library scouring quirky book annotations: a scrawled observation that the design of a coat hook resembles a drunk octopus; the hidden confession of unrequited love; the country’s legislature taken to task via marker pen.

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