Schattenspiele

Erin Mulvehill

Palazzo delle Esposizion at Venice Biennale

Textile deisgner Emmie Joseph

Reverse Graffiti Project

Clean graffiti

So I was flicking through http://www.nylonmag.com/ and came across their blog featuring Ellis G fire tagging. He is most known for outlining shadows with chalk in the streets of NYC.

This reminded me of another kind of unconventional street art. After some knitting with the droppin' stitches group, my fellow knitter Janine and I were strolling down the streets of the Northern Quarter which features some street art (but most of it actually on NQ cafe/bar walls) and came to talk about reverse graffiti. It is created by *removing* dirt from a surface and therefore not only actually defacing objects and legal! Big corporations have already used this method for advertising, cleverclever, there is even a company specialized in exactly this http://www.dirtystreetadvertising.com/.

Apparently the 'Keep Britain Tidy' group oppose reverse graffiti. Practising artists such as Moose aka Paul Curtis have been charged but no one has ever been able to make a case against him; he says, "No one owns the dirt." I also prefer viewing it as alternative street art that removes dirt and leaves nothing but a piece of green, clean art.

http://www.reversegraffitiproject.com/