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Do you think graffiti is a kind of art or vandalism?

From my point of view, 'Art' is the artists' expression of feelings, thoughts and values regarding the world in which they live. Artists express their subjectivity through words to write texts, poems, and lyrics; or by means of lines, strokes, colours or painting shapes, with volumes to create figures, landscapes and portraits. Likewise, through sounds and melodies to create music. In this way, the artists with their creations show their inner selves to the outside world.

Apart from this subjective dimension, art possesses an objective dimension, because artists express in their works the characteristics of the world in which they live. In their works, the conflicts of their world become visible. Including their contradictions, achievements, failures, and their lies or truths. The word, sound, shape and volume, are not only an expression of an inner life, but also aspects of the world that, thanks to their artistic work becomes visible for those who find it to read, hear, see and touch and enough to try to understand it.

In this sense, I wonder if Bansky's graffiti shows these dimensions or on the contrary, if they are a type of vandalism. According to RAE, vandalism is defined as a spirit of destruction that does not respect neither profane nor sacred things. However, Bansky's graffiti does not destroy public or private property, but on the contrary, his work transforms the backdrop to denounce conflicts that define our present, while the mass media forgets them when they aren't trending topic.

Bearing in mind these two dimensions of art, Banksy's work expresses a rebellious, transgressive and imaginative subjectivity in his artistic discoveries and criticism of our society. Despite this, his work is also contradictory, considering that he denounces a society based on money while he is selling his work at high prices. Anyway, beyond his possible inconsistency, his work shows the contradictions of a society based on freedom, while the world is building walls between nations. Otherwise, it is based on the democracy and citizen participation while their movements are being controlled with the lastest techonologies or, what's worse, conditioning their decisions through advertising.

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My home of the future

I must recognize that since I've become a mother, I had never seen  as many animation films or cartoons as I do now. The funny thing of it all is that I've started to remember and watch again my all-time favourite cartoons. 

The most special was The Jetson. I loved it because when I was a child, I firmly believed  that the future, my life, my school, my job, and so on and so forth,  would be as this cartoon. For example, I thought my home would be raised high above the ground on adjustable columns in the outer space. It would have little furniture, in fact,  the home's style will be minimalist, so that everything I need would be integrated in the house or in  some robots.

Regarding my daily life, it will be leisurely, because all my household chores will be assisted by numerous labor-saving devices. I will just have pushed some buttons to start to clean the house or cook or  to do whatever. I won't be worrying about doing the housework, because  it will have been programmed. In fact, I will have only to elect the frecuency (every day, every week, and so on).

The most common appliances will have become robots who will be doing different kinds  of tasks at home. In other words, the life in the future will be designied by robotic contraptions. Therefore, I will be living in  smart-houses, which will be controled by my voice. For instance, if I want to take a bubble bath I´ll only have to say: ' I need a bubble bath' and immediately it will be prepared in  few minutes or if I have a party, I could choose my clothes by means of some holograms.

 We will have learned to save our time to enjoy our free time or to enjoy all the important things really.