Strolling down the urban streets in Poland, one might notice an odd juxtaposition of ancient buildings and bright colorful, sometimes offensive graffiti. Most of the time it is displaying a moniker of a tagger or a hooligans preference in soccer, but once in a while you get big beautiful murals. Sometimes cities set up "practice walls" to help deter graffiti artists from tagging on precious facades. There are different styles of graffiti you can see in Poland. Those previously mentioned murals and quick draw words, and then you have stencils, which are handy for a flick-of-the-wrist personalized footprint.
Also it is easy to get a lot of these done in a night. The only downside is you are carrying a lot of evidence with you if you get busted. Another kind is sticker graffiti- or "slaps"- these are nice and fast to put up on anywhere from signs to bathroom stalls. A larger variation of this is wheat-pasting. This is when you coat a poster or something along those lines with wheat-paste. This is a very tricky process, but it sticks. There are many other types of more "avant-garde" graffiti, but these are the basic ones. The big question in the graffiti and law enforcement world is should these people be punished for their art? It seems practice walls are helping. Luckily as a passerby we can just enjoy the view.
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