A weight-bearing pillar of Harrell’s new strategy is to recruit and even hire some graffiti artists to replace the constant cycle of abatement with new and better graffiti artwork in high-profile areas.Ī graffiti artist who is recognized as a respected influencer in the underground culture agreed to talk to KIRO 7 in front of one of his productions in Fremont. “It doesn’t feel welcoming.”Īccording to the mayor’s office, since 2019, graffiti complaints to the city have grown over 50% recently, including nearly 20,000 reports of graffiti and tagging in 2021 alone. “You just see prolific tagging everywhere and it doesn’t feel good,” Harrell said. To combat the spray painting surge, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has made unprecedented policies to control it. “We’ve painted over the same locations up to seven times,” said a member of Seattle Public Utility’s Graffiti Ranger crew, while coating what appeared to be endless fresh graffiti sprayed on walls along Seattle’s Burke Gilman trail. Whether you view it as an outrageous sign of disorder and decay or legitimate counter-cultural artistic expression, Seattle has been covered in more graffiti, and more graffiti is being covered up - at a higher cost to taxpayers - than ever before.
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