Jun 14, 2006
Reverse graffiti
A UK graffiti artist going by the name of “Moose” makes his art not by painting onto walls, but by cleaning them. He’s been doing it to the ever so predictable annoyance of local authorities who are resolutely calling it vandalism. Apparently the council of Leeds has even asked him to “clean up” one of his pieces. Besides the fact that his works are obviously already clean they usually last only a few days.
The technique dubbed “grime writing” also holds interesting symbolic values. It accentuates the fact that our cities are getting increasingly dirty because of air pollution. The grey coat that covers many buildings, tunnels and streets and that is usually almost forgotten – or at least part of mundane scenery – suddenly becomes visible to all.
You can see some more of Paul Curtis aka Moose’s work at symbolix.com.
very nice. I always like to see the mind applying lateral thinking & moving on.
Moose’s work is tight- anybody know the cleaning agent he use to scub the walls clean?
Ive seen both Adidas and Persil (washing powder) advertising in this way in the UK. Also the logo of an new music artist (plan b) ‘graffitied’ (sp?) in this way. It looked pro rather than done by himself. Street team work requested by his management?
Anyway, its not taken long for it to become used by corporations.
Maybe he want to earn in order to do a larger larger project. Let’s hope so?
Oh, I dont think he did them. they just copied the idea. : )
He did commercial work, for Xbox amongst others. See site.
Which appears to be… ferschweunden!@
Ariel advertising in London. [h]
oh damn, i posted some pic but they are not showing. see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jollyness/232528074/
Thanks Julene
I’ll look into posting images in here, needs to be possible.