Graffiti tends to have a negative effect on communities, and is a blight on city centres across the country, with people seeing it as serious form of vandalism, which can cost councils huge amounts of money to remove.
There is, however, a new style of graffiti that has been popping up, transforming walls into stunning, green pieces of art. It’s called Moss Graffiti, or Green Graffiti, and it uses moss to create ecologically sound public art, which can be easily removed by spraying with lime juice.
After seeing some beautiful examples, we decided to have a go ourselves and here’s how we did it!
Ingredients
- Two handfuls of moss (kindly donated by Holly from her shed roof)
- Two cups of natural yogurt
- Two cups of water (you can use beer, but, sadly, our office is lacking in that department)
- Half a teaspoon of sugar
Step One
We washed the moss to remove as much soil possible from the roots – an interesting thing to be caught doing in the communal kitchen!
Step Two
The moss was broken into tiny pieces. It’s recommended that a blender is used to get the moss as broken down as possible, but none of us was willing to sacrifice our blenders to the cause, so we spent a considerable amount of time ripping the moss to shreds.
Step Three
We added the yoghurt, water and sugar, and stirred with a big stick that we remembered was behind the bookcase.
Step Four
We disembarked into the Friar Gate Studios courtyard and began to paint our design, which I had drawn with chalk on the wall.
Step Five
We wait.
Step Six
We wait some more. And keep the design spritzed with water to encourage it to grow…
We’ll keep you posted on how the Moss Graffiti comes along and ‘the big reveal’ when it’s lush and green; why not try some of your own?
Fay
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