Why Do Monikers Use Graffiti?

Lastly setting up graffiti to what we known of it today would be the monikers that were drawn by hobos (figure 3).2 Moniker defined means name and these homeless people would leave their marks on the boxcars or train carts. Typically, they would sign their name but some would leave illustrations or would even include some poetry or other writings.2 It is believed that these illustrations started around the 1970s but was also never intended to be counted as vandalism. These illustrations were meant as harmless décor to in some ways decorate and mark the boxcars that some of the hobos lived in. Monikers take graffiti closer to home of what is envisioned today as street art.