Grime Writing

Street artist Moose Benjamin Curtis was once arrested for creating graffiti on a South London public wall. Which is ironic, because Moose wasn’t creating marks on the wall – he was subtracting the dirt and grime deposited there over time by air pollution. The result, as you can see in the above “drawing” at the Broadway Tunnel in San Francisco, is a more beautific public space, created with scrub brushes, rags, cleaning fluid and sometimes a high-pressure hose. Check out these other examples of his negative space art:

  The one below says “Thank You For Not Breeding.”