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When Tempe muralist Such Styles was growing up, street art was virtually nonexistent. It wasn’t until he read Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York by Craig Castleman, a book chronicling the artwork of pioneering graffiti writers in NYC, that he was inspired to start a graffiti art scene in Arizona. “They were taking the basic alphabet and they were manipulating it and changing it around, embellishing it, kind of making their own new alphabet...