The world of graffiti has dwelled in a two-dimensional realm since it's beginning. Street art, or graffiti, began its rise on the blank clay bricks of city walls, and so in the same way should it mature to inhabit and occupy the gritty exteriors of ceramic vessels. Here, not only may the self-expression of street art be legalized, but more importantly it will allow for it to be seen by the eyes of an entirely separate audience. Graffiti generally targets the every-day individual who, by chance, passes the corner, in which the graffiti artist has reformatted, or transformed the night before. If, however, graffiti was to find it's way off of city walls and into the museums of famous craft-oriented ceramics, this may open up a world of opportunities for this medium itself. I hope by printing and scratching these street-art-influenced images onto the side of ceramic vessels, I may do just that. Graffiti is a field of art that is often associated delinquents spraying paint illegally on the sides of buildings, however, that is simply due to its present day nature. Graffiti, like any other artistic medium, was influenced by a medium before it, calligraphy, and was transformed from a lettering-style fit for kings, to a hand-style fit for city walls. Although the beauty in these gestural lines appears to be quite apparent to the naked eye, its general location has forced individuals, artistic or not, to hate the medium, simply for its existence. Graffiti artists, much like any other artist on earth, strive for two things; the mass-spread of their work, and the initial desire for some sort of recognition. Street credit, to graffiti artists, is very similar to a good review after an exhibition, they don't happen often, but when they do, they make all the difference. As a ceramics major, a graffiti artist, and especially as an individual, I often find that my studio work reflects the lifestyle I live, and the things I see on a daily basis. I, on many occasions, attempt to pull influence from the urban street life incorporating graffiti, into my surface work of my pottery. "The man who builds the walls is the same man who should have the right to tear them down." That's is my inevitable repeated attempt in my pottery. With the creation of thrown walls by hand, which eventually dry to a brick-like texture, I find that its only natural that I would be drawn to 'tag' or 'bomb' my own created walls. Being city-born, and city raised its only natural that graffiti has f