Reverse graffiti in South Africa

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

People who paint graffiti usually pollute the wall by applying paint to it. And by no means always can such works be called art at all. But everything is quite the opposite in the international project with the name Reverse Graffiti, whose members make walls and fences not dirtier, but cleaner!

Several years ago, we already told you about the project "Reverse Graffiti" ("Graffiti in reverse" or "Reverse graffiti"), and more specifically, about the work of the artist with the pseudonym Moose, created by him on the walls of the Broadway tunnel smoked from the exhaust pipes of cars in San Francisco: And it turns out that this is not a one-off project. Reverse Graffiti is an international creative initiative that absolutely anyone can join. You just need to have time and imagination.

The essence of the "Reverse Graffiti" project is to paint graffiti on walls and fences dirty from soot, car emissions and other nasty things. Moreover, paint without applying any paints to the surface, but, on the contrary, cleaning it.

That is, people participating in the Reverse Graffiti project take a wall or fence and clean it of dirt and grime in certain places, thereby creating a variety of drawings that are very noticeable on the medium on which they are drawn in such an unusual way.

The latest action of the international creative and social project "Reverse Graffiti" took place in South Africa, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, where members of the creative association Dutch Ink found a dirty fence that was protecting the river from a busy highway and painted an image on it, later named "Flight 101".

In this picture, there is one hundred and one birds, scratched with a variety of scrapers and stencils on the mentioned fence. It turned out quite interesting, beautiful and meaningful. Anyway, a fence with Flight 101 looks much better than a fence without Flight 101.