REVERSE GRAFFITI: Street Artists Tag Walls by Scrubbing Them Clean

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/strooks-reverse-moss-graffiti-mural-emerges-from-a-wall-of-the-stuk-arts-centre-in-belgium/">street artists around the world</a> have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/automotive-ossuary.html" target="new">Reverse Graffiti</a>. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled <a href="http://inhabitat.com/ben-long-etches-beautiful-reverse-graffiti-drawings-in-exhaust-grime-on-commercial-trucks/">on the back of delivery trucks</a>, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with <a href="http://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti-hits-munich-streets-and-pays-homage-to-green-vehicles/">images, tags, and even advertising slogans</a> using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously. A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the "Wash Me" messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

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British Reverse Graffiti Artist Paul Curtis