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Clean Tags

Friday 15 July 2005

In a neat inversion of street art, graffiti made out of ‘cleaning’ pavement and walls.

In the picture, Leeds graffiti artist Moose cleans a wall with his tag. His inspiration was seeing that people had written their names with their fingers on dirty tunnel walls in his hometown of Leeds. He might have also seen a white van saying ‘clean me’. Moose does some freehand drawing, but also uses the grid from wall tiles to create perfect shapes and letters. The tools are simple: A shoe brush, water and elbow grease.

Clean tagging has since been used by the French Yellow Pages as an environmentally friendly advertising vehicle. Maybe one for Greenpeace?

Story via the we make money not art blog.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: graffiti

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