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Most street artists add to the urban environment to make a statement. But Stefaan de Croock takes away instead: he uses a pressure washer to carve graffiti into the natural dirt and growth that cover our cityscapes, and the results are quite amazing.
Moss has a tendency to grow rapidly on concrete walls, especially when they’re regularly damp. That’s something de Croock—AKA Strook—takes advantage of. This series of images shows off his signature “subtractive graffiti”, cut into a wall of moss outside the STUK art center in Leuven, Belgium.
I’ve never seen an artwork describe the materials used simply as “water” before now. Sadly, the moss grows back quickly so within a few weeks of creating such pieces they’re diffiuclt to see. Not to worry: they’re preserved in some detail over on de Croock’s website. [Stefaan de Croock via Web Urbanist]
Nice
I generally like that style of graffiti anyway though, even if done in paint.
Art and other interesting stuff is great, mindlessly writing your name or other text on things isn’t.
Can you please stop posting good/interesting posts for the next few days? I have an exam on Monday and am finding it really distracting.
Until Monday afternoon, can you only post about Apple/iPhones/iPads. I won’t bother to read those then.
Haha, we’ll try our hardest to please you
You’re actually doing the opposite.
Toilets from hell, weird semi-pointless PR stunts and now boobs holding phones.
Yup, you really are trying hard.
This reminds me of a chap over in Brazil who managed to “reverse-graffiti” the inner walls of a tunnel in Sao Paulo. He used cleaning products to remove the filth that had built up from vehicles travelling through it in an attempt at getting the council to clean up their act.
Pretty impressive stuff, and was done back in 2007…
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2007/10/dirty-trick-cau/
I love these sorts of stories. Eco-street-art.
Really cool idea but where did he manage to find moss covered walls? I don’t come across them…well…ever.
Reminds me of the technique where you prepare a wall with a mixture and then paint blended up moss onto it. It then grows into whatever design you prepared beforehand.
so….what constitutes unethical graffiti? everything else?
This has been around for years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_graffiti