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REVERSE GRAFFITI: Street Artists Tag Walls by Scrubbing Them Clean

01/09/2007

Reverse Graffiti Skulls

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.

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Reverse Graffiti Moose

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously.... <a href='https://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Moose 2

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously.... <a href='https://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Reverse Graffiti

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously.... <a href='https://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Moose 5

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously.... <a href='https://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Alexandre Orion

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously.... <a href='https://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Reverse graffiti, Sao Paulo, Alexander Orion

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously.... <a href='https://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Sao Paulo, Alexander Orion, Clean graffiti

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you're doing it to create art. Obviously.... <a href='https://inhabitat.com/reverse-graffiti/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Reverse Graffiti Crackdown

Reverser Graffiti Crackdown

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Reverse Graffite UK

British Reverse Graffiti Artist Paul Curtis

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Reverse Graffiti Skulls

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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Reverse Graffiti Skulls