Grafiti Feliz

I've seen more optimistic graffiti here than anywhere else. People confessing their love to each other on walls and such. (Lots of protest graffiti, too. People here are really disappointed with Monsanto. And their president.)

I pass by this one frequently. It says "Youth is a divine treasure."

I'm pretty sure "animo!" means something to the effect of "cheer up!"

And a dinosaur. And this isn't the only one I've seen. We need more dinosaur graffiti in the US.

This doesn't fit under the category of happy, but I really love the image of the grandmother in the rocking chair, and it is still way better graffiti than random defacement. This wall was painted with faces of "los desconocidos" (the disappeared) - men, women, and children that went missing several decades ago in Argentina. In the 70s there were two opposing political groups and the right wing military group seized power and arrested thousands of left-wing citizens who were never heard from again after the arrests. It is very likely that these people were all tortured and murdered in secret detention centers.