Graffiti Profiler

Becoming the first "Graffiti Profiler" ever came just accidentally by a social media bigshot reinterpreting his actual job as a forensic graffiti mapper, which originally was just born from the need to identify and match graffiti locations, spray time patterns, etc. for the identification of their creators: criminals, gang members, overambitioned but otherwise serious artists, or just simple, destructive vandalism.

Relating street art to ancient symbolism and iconography such as hieroglyphs, runes, mandalas, mudras, or the Christian halo, for him, came quite naturally, just as a hobby starting slow and soon occupying his spare leisure time completely. He got hooked on the topic, and when he started his blog, people focused more on the esoteric stuff rather than supporting him on the investigation job.

And so it came that his name became associated with a graffiti profiling expertise he has never chosen, has never been aware of, and does not really own. Of course, it has been a short, natural step to link some graffiti's recurring patterns of ancient symbols with their creator's intellectual background and personality to generate, for some rare cases, the missing hint that helped to narrow the sieve for potential culprits.

However, he never wanted to become a sprayer-hunter. He still perceives graffiti as art and a legitimate manifestation of creative shadow-people expressing their own little revolt against the elite or just painting their love for their socially unreachable soul-bodies.

But yes, with all the upcoming AI that fully automated his job, his reputational "expertise" was everything that was left to pay his bills. And so, because folks still want to be reminded that the beginning of what AI is doing today initially started with a real person, he got not bad regular income and great logistics when being invited to the elite circles to live-interpret art - before or after the purchase - for hidden hints and meanings and/or give some clues on the artists' or former purchasers' background.