December 2012
Beginner
240 pages
4h 21m
English
Sometimes doing the opposite provides a new solution
Everybody is familiar with graffiti. Some people consider it art, many consider it vandalism: dirty (sometimes literally as well as metaphorically) messages that pollute the environment.
Artist Paul Curtis turned this around 180 degrees. Going by his graffiti name of Moose, Curtis creates his messages by cleaning urban surfaces and letting the cleaned part be the image. His work appears in Leeds and in Shoreditch, London, and his company, Symbollix, has been hired for ad campaigns by Microsoft, Iageo and others.
He uses stencils, brushes and water as well as sandpaper and razor blades to create images and words from sooty and grotty surfaces ...
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