Graffiti: The Audacious Alphabet is many things: a history of graffiti, a fine art book, a travelogue, an art instruction book and a celebration of the Roman alphabet. It explores graffiti as an open air Zen koan waiting to be deciphered, a secret coded message flashing its news in full sight. It unlocks graffiti’s grand paradox, the melding of the Yin of childlike artistic expression with the yang of gang violence.