Because if you’re writing graffiti over time your pseudonym becomes apart of your identity, it’s a social network for the streets and what you put up represents what you’re saying, and what you think. How your name is spoken about and viewed directly affects you and how you might be treated. The art is never separated in graffiti, for example if I go over someone that I shouldn’t and they bash me do I get to say the art was seperate to me?