A new way to approach graffiti

I was incredibly focused on the idea of graffiti being on a wall, so I tried to move away from that taking inspiration from various canvas graffiti and comic artists to come up with this illustration.

The colours and imagery are striking and bold, but they don't really portray the message I want. Also I could not for the life of me figure out how to incorporate typography into this. It just did not work.

This is quite frankly the best result of incorporating some type into the image and it really doesn't look great. Back to the drawing board again.