Welcome home notes and drawings usually informed others that the house’s occupant has returned from the pilgrimage to Mecca. The plane, ship or camel showed the means of transportation.
This was an unconscious creation of a visual landmark, a pure sign of pride, where people used to draw on their own house's exterior walls to demonstrate their pride in front of the neighborhood.
CRIME
Although graffiti may be seen in an unconventional way and is unsolicited, that doesn't necessarily disqualify it as art. People are unused to art "approaching" them out of conventional settings such as a museum or gallery. Graffiti reaches out to people, sometimes very unexpectedly and, for others, it is just vandalism.
But the way defenders and artists see it, “what is the point of having a bare brick wall? It's an eyesore! If the building has no architectural beauty and is a perfect place to display a mural, why not put one up?” The vandalism aspect usually associated with graffiti means the art is often quite temporary and can be gone within minutes. A piece that may be 15 metres long and 3 metres high and has taken 8 hours and 30 cans of paint to make can be painted over in just minutes. Graffiti is revolutionary, and any revolution might be considered a crime. People who are oppressed or suppressed need an outlet, so they write on walls, it’s free.
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