F*CK with love

I've seen this tag from Chinatown to JP and was wondering what it meant. It occurred to me that if it was a revolutionary signal, it would be genius. I mean when you see it on the street, on the subway or on a wall in Chinatown, there is no * obviously it's just the word. So say you try to Google that phrase. What will come up? Probably porn or something. So it is a symbol? Does it mean something?


I've never really known much about graffiti art or Hop Hop or break dancing the way most people my age would no about it. I mean my friends did that while I did Kung Fu and got into Kung Fu or reading books. I really was a PBS type of kid hooked on British Dramas. But watching this new Netflix show, "The Get Down" I'm intrigued. Part of me is more sold on the show about those art forms than the art forms themselves... I guess I'm still learning. But I aim to learn all I can and try my hand at some things with my own approach. It seems like these art forms drew heavily from Kung Fu cinema and that ancient culture. I guess my plan is the inverse of that. Having been immersed in that type of antiquated thinking and philosophy, I plan to draw from some of the ideas created out of that.

But anyway, when I see a tag with a curse on it in my neighborhood.. how should I feel about that? I mean the tag itself does not look to me like the most spectacular piece of art. It isn't an ink painting even of the simplest form. It's not deep. I never had a problem when the kids were little and asking what words were. We watched Super Why and I would just say they were super letters, and I figured at that age if they could read the curse word, then more power to them. But now they read quite well and you would have to have lyrics and poetry on the wall for it to be deemed educational.