CleanGraffati?
September 13th, 2006
“Paul Curtis aka Moose is no regular graffiti artist. In fact, he’s the reverse-graffiti artist. He created his street art by *cleaning* the dirt and grime off of surfaces!
Authorities are baffled: is selective cleaning a crime?
From an NPR interview we learn :
The tools are simple: A shoe brush, water and elbow grease, he says.
British authorities aren’t sure what to make of the artist who is creating graffiti by cleaning the grime of urban life. The Leeds City Council has been considering what to do with Moose. “I’m waiting for the kind of Monty Python court case where exhibit A is a pot of cleaning fluid and exhibit B is a pair of my old socks,” he jokes.”
We’re big fan of the layers that make urban centers and Graffiti one of those layers is of motivation to us working in outdoor media.
But do a little more research on Paul Curtis the man behind Clean Graffati and you see that he’s started a small boutique agency using his signature style graffati in urban centers for advertising clients like Microsoft XBox, Size?, Smirof and a few others. Check out his agency Symbollix if you are interested.
Here is some work he did for the television series Big Brother. Should he be fined? Should he share his profit from the project with the city as would other more conventional bill boards and other outdoor advertising?
