I like graffiti. I like the way it can spice up those boring concrete walls in tunnels and similar. Nicely executed it can even make a building look nicer and some people actually provide walls for graffiti.
One problem, though, is the fact that graffiti tends to be illegal and many people don’t like it. Especially those people owning the wall/buildning graffitied upon and they often pay big bucks to clean the walls on regular intervals.
But what about cleaning the wall for them? Just… not the entire wall.
In our world of industry there is a depressing amount of dirty walls on public places but no one really notices since they are so evenly dirty. This has made a few people think a little on the subject of graffiti. Regular graffiti is executed by adding paint to a wall, thus creating art. But if you expose the real color through the layers of dirt, by cleaning brushing it off, you can also make patterns and art. A sort of reversed graffiti.
A growing number of street artists has begun doing this. Working with hoses, brushes and scrubs to create patterns and art in the dirt. A nice, eco-friendly, and creative way to make art.
Read more on: http://inhabitat.com/2007/01/11/reverse-graffiti/
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