I came across a cool article on Environmental Graffiti about Anna Garforth and her Mossenger street art project that involves adorning public walls with green graffiti made from moss. Using the method that Garforth is using, disaffected youth can turn their tagging terra-friendly by making moss murals.
The Moss Green Graffiti is completely natural and organic, as opposed to traditional enamel based sprays that are ridden with CFCs, VOCs and a host of other scary acronyms that make mother nature cringe. The best part is it’s relatively easy to make…
So if you are a Highway Vandal with a conscience or an eco-friendly artist check out these tutorials and recipes to get you started…
This is so cool! If moss didn’t take so much water, i would try doing this in our drought southern california!
You know, there is a special type of desert moss that you might be able to try. Dont know if the recipe will work with this stuff though.
Wery gorgeous a work.
Thanks
I really love this idea! We shall see if it catches on in NYC.
Great idea!!!!!
Quote:”disaffected youth can take turn their tagging terra-friendly by making moss murals”
Great idea. I love its green creativeness but this will never catch on with taggers as they are all about defacing, not enhancing the environment…
Пока успел прочитать только эту одну запись, если и все остальное также хорошо, то автору респект
well that’s a bit of a generalization, and as such has many exceptions
That is beautiful graffiti. I agree with Sudsy, “taggers are all about defacing.” Maybe the police who catch them and make them clean it up, can also make them do this type of graffiti after they clean up the paint? It’d be nice if they had to put up inspirational quotes or poems or something we would want to look at.
These commenters seem very ignorant about the art of graffitti. I think this moss idea is lovely, and definitely an eco friendly way to adorn walls, but more “traditional” street art is not all about defacing public property. Of course, sometimes it is intended to deface or even mock a pice of property as a form of protest, but in many cases a viewer would not have to stretch very far to call a piece of graffitti an art piece. While I’m not a fan of the environmental impact of paint sprayed from cans with damaging propellants, that’s no reason to disregard a long standing and beautiful art form as simply destruction of property. Do a google search for Banksy if you would like a vast array of recent examples.
gross…how does it smell?
Green Graffiti
…disaffected youth can take turn their tagging terra-friendly by making moss murals. The Moss Green Graffiti is completely natural and organic as opposed to traditional enamel based spray that are ridden with CFCs, VOCs and a host of other scary acronyms that make mother nature cringe…
Dang! That’s really cool! Sadly, I’m not sure how many taggers are going to stuff their pockets full of moss instead of spraycans, but I have to say, if my building was tagged with moss…i’d be far less irritated, and much more likely to leave it up. Perhaps even frame it?
This is an excellent idea, taggers would not use it though. But it looks great and saves the environment.
This is a wonderful idea! So beautiful!
I don’t think that taggers are actually trying to deface property, they just see it as a blank page that they can fill with their artwork. And they have no empathy or respect for the owners so defacing someone’s property means nothing to them. Parents no longer teach their children bounderies and so they think the whole world is for their taking.
Taggers ARE trying to deface property. Graffiti artists are not taggers. It is a completely different thing. Graffiti artists make murals which are artistic. Taggers just spray initials, names and swear words. Totally different concept. If you called a graffiti artist a tagger you would likely get slapped upside the head. They hate it as usually taggers not only deface property but other people’ s artwork. Taggers are scum.
wow. just stop leaving comments concerning things you have no idea about.
obviously not to manny “taggers” here to defend themselves, i can’t speak as a tagger, but i think some would definitely use this.
type in “banksy” into google image search if you dont believe me.
I would love to see these in my town.
It’s hard to believe these are relatively easy to make…but “shrugs”
very nice
-Lu
I love the idea
AND
not all graffiti artists are taggers
don’t be mean : (
From what I understand, there is a difference between Graffiti and “Tagging.” Taggers often try to tag impressive targets, to prove they can as much as anything. Tagging is usually just a name or symbol done in spray paint. Graffiti is either the gang-related and marks a particular gang’s “territory” but can also be the works of art mentioned above.
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taggers will not use this? im sorry how many of you guys know any taggers, and i mean real taggers, ones that do it for a life style, ones that view it as art and not as just another way of getting there name or gang on walls?
one of the worlds best taggers in the world is a vegan who cares about the world greatly and ive met him in person, and trust me he would love this, sure not ever tagger will like this but then again i bet the same percentage can be said about the general populace as a whole, please dont stereotype a group of people
who knows maybe you will see a banksy doing it
I love this idea, you really can make this into artwork.
Graffiti is ALL about recking shit. Fill-ins, outlines, burners tags. Art comes second- maybe.
not bad …
Now that’s graffiti art!
Too bad it only works in areas with humidity. Here in the West, some people think humidity is just a myth.
Ну так и без недостатков и достоинства незаметны
I’ts nice!!
thanks for sharing.
This is a huge point, I wish I would have thought of this earlier.