This is the final drawing in the seven-part illustration series accompanying the article As the Sun Sets, We Rise, published in Colors Magazine in 1993. If Graffiti is Vandalism poses a direct challenge to dominant narratives around graffiti, questioning the criminalization of creative expression in public space. Through layered imagery and declarative visual language, Mkali reframes graffiti not as defacement, but as a vital and legitimate form of cultural production. The drawing stands as an early articulation of a philosophy that would come to define much of his later work — where art, resistance, and identity are inseparable.