Video: "Reverse graffiti" - we make the walls cleaner
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We all know about the art of graffiti, when various images appear on a clean wall thanks to the talent of the artist and a bottle of paint. But did you know that there is an opposite direction in street art? It is called that - "reverse graffiti" and requires dirty walls and detergents.
An American artist known as "Moose" became the author of this unusual idea. As the first canvas, he used the walls of the Broadway tunnel in San Francisco. This tunnel is the most important transport artery of the city, located in the very center of the metropolis and passing through more than 20 thousand cars, trucks and motorcycles every day. Not surprisingly, with such traffic flow, the walls of the tunnel are covered with a thick layer of dirt and soot from exhaust gases.
Maybe the idea of "reverse graffiti" was born to the artist just at the moments of contemplation of these dirty walls. Or vice versa, a creative idea appeared first, and then the Broadway tunnel was chosen as the ideal canvas. Anyway, one night Moose armed himself with washcloths, detergents and pre-prepared stencils and got down to business. And in the morning, the residents of the city, instead of the usual dirt, looked at the images of flowers and trees on the walls of the tunnel.
True, some people argue that there was advertising here, and the whole undertaking was organized only with the aim of advertising a certain detergent. Well, maybe that's how it was. But whatever the true reasons for the emergence of "reverse graffiti" - this trend in street art already exists. Moose took the first step here, but there are still many “canvases” in our urbanized world, like the tunnel in San Francisco, waiting for their artists.
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