Now this is a brilliant idea, especially for those of us who live in drought ravaged climes, cause this one won’t get washed away in the rain very often. Check out Mud Stencils. Basically the same as normal stencils but you use mud instead of spraypaint.
How cool is that?
It’s better for the planet, has a whole different aesthetic potential, and it brings back the joy of playing in the mud that we all used to experience as kids. In fact this would be a good activity to get kids into stencilling. I’d think though that you have to be a bit more thoughtful as to where you put your stencils if you want them to last a while.
I’ve got one in mind, will post pics when I get around to it.
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Something similiar I’ve seen on the web is finding a dirty or mouldy wall and using a stencil and a water blaster to clean a pattern off it.
I think one guy was arguing in court that this wasn’t covered under vandalism laws though I don’t know where it got him.
yeah that’s a cool idea too. One would think that cleaning a wall couldn’t possibly be covered under vandalism walls. It’s like anti-vandalism isn’t it?
Imagine getting done for selective cleaning, he he.
IIRC it was in New York and the PTB retaliated by cleaning the wall. Which led to an escalating series of “if you want it cleaned, clean something onto it” events. Mud does seem like a great idea, but probably a bit hard on the stencil. Have to try it.
This kind of reminds me of (for those of us who live in a damper climate). It also opens up for some interesting projects.
I love the idea of reverse graffiti, and stumbled across this video a while ago: . Maybe you guys have already seen it, but I just wanted to share it.
Well, that didn’t exactly turn out the way I intended…
Anyway, the first link is about moss graffiti. The second is to a video by Alexandre Orion.