Each year, as graduation and Manifest draw closer on Columbia's campus, the graffiti on campus begins to ramp up. There's not much direct freehand spray painting on buildings. We get wheat paste pieces, spray painted stencil pieces (more often on the ground or on the supports that hold up the el tracks on campus), or drawings on labels stuck all over everything.

I'm sure, due to the illegality of this past time, that I shouldn't look forward to it each year. . . but it's as sure a sign of Spring coming as robins in the park or crocuses popping up out of the snow. And it's art. So what's an art and spring lovin' girl to do, I ask you?

This week, I spotted these:

Funny, but I don't agree.  I think you're lovely.