Santiago is covered in the scroll of graffiti. Letters, names, numbers, words, thoughts, pictures, and posters fill the cityscape. Everywhere. Walls are tagged, benches are tagged, windows are tagged, statues are tagged. If there is a surface, there is a tag. The youth of Santiago, notably the writers of these countless words, tell their stories on the walls of the city. They mark their territory by naming themselves and their thoughts. Signs of anarchy, signs of peace, signs of frustration, signs of happiness all appear in the graffiti space of Santiago. Because graffiti is illegal here, all of these words have been placed on these walls in the style of guerrilla graffiti. Fast, precise, to the point. Oftentimes graffiti overlaps and layers, creating a cacophony of tongues. Taggers riddle their riddles. Riddling, riddling, riddling away.
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