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them, it was a bad word, and it wasn’t going to go anywhere. It was a detriment to an art career. My mom felt to be a real artist, you had to be in a museum. She said, “You got a shot at it, and you should drop that ‘Chicano’ and that graffiti stuff. You have skill.” I go, “Mom, having skills is not enough.”
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they still ask me, “Do you do graffiti? Can you change the word? You know, can you change it to ‘artistic calligraphy?’ You’re not a graffiti artist.” They hate people calling me a graffiti artist. They didn’t even like me being called a
Chicano. They still don’t care too much for it. Because for
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Cholo-style graffiti is described as "one of the oldest forms of graffiti," which was "invented by
Mexican Americans in the 1940s, when gangs marked their territories with roll-calls, or lists of names." Bojórquez and other Chicano artists were developing their own style of graffiti art known as
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