reverse graffiti

In this day and age, nearly everyone is concerned with the environment. We are all doing our best to care for mother earth. Some people accomplish this by recycling more, driving less, adapting fluorescent light bulbs, turning off the air conditioning, etc.
For Brazilian street artist Alexandre Orion, the best way to highlight the ongoing environmental crisis is to utilize a technique known as reverse graffiti. To put it bluntly, reverse graffiti is a form of graffiti thats created by drawing with a cloth (or other cleaning tool) on a very dirty surface, rather than with a spray-paint can. In doing this, the art ends up etched into the filth and calls attention to the pollution in the area.

Last summer, Orion transformed a the Max Feffer Tunnel in São Paulo, Brazil into one of the most spellbinding works of street art. He created a mural comprised of hundreds of macabre skulls. Alexandres message here was quite clear; drivers in the area needed to do something about their emissions. If a tunnel was turned into a soot and grime filled chimney of sorts, imagine how the rest of the Earth was being impacted.
Eventually, the authorities showed up and tried to determine what course of action they should take. They realized that they couldnt charge Orion with a crime, since he technically wasnt doing anything illegal. They subsequently made the decision to erase his masterpiece of a mural and clean that side of the tunnel. When Orion continued on the opposing side, city officials cleaned the entire tunnel, and every other tunnel in São Paulo. I think Orion got his point across.

Tekst from www.jetcomx.com

Video from http://www.alexandreorion.com/ossario/ossario_eng.html

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Graffiti
• Environment
• Alexandre Orion
• Brazil
• reverse graffiti
• Sao Paulo
• Max Feffer Tunnel
• skulls

[pikedre]

does anybody knows the name of this artist

[14raun]

@pikedre Alexandre Orion

[ItsJustAnotherTube]

Fuck the police.

[hello2nycity]

Wow... it takes soo much effort for ppl to start do their job and care. Then they only do it coz it looks bad on them.....I like the way you've made a point...

[TheTerribleBear]

What song is this?

[CharlotteQV]

Wonderful Artist. Mind blowing talented. Unfair that it had to get washed away. I had to do an art project on this! I was totally with it and agreed with this type of graffiti. Reverse graffiti (this graffiti) doesn't hurt anyone. At the end of the day he is cleaning the wall. They should of left it there. Jealous pigs! Just because they can't do that or they don't have that talent doesn't mean they can go around destroying other people's work. You are amazing Alexandre Orion! Well done! :-)

[gingerbox616]

@ther0cks111 And the gunk going down into the sewers. Oh well, still cool.

[CloudMeetsSky]

So now because there is art on it they clean it? Our society is seriously fucked

[theadrenalineman1]

@ther0cks111 wtf dude um ya the rain falls and goes right back to the lakes and shit they didnt waste any water

[ther0cks111]

@theadrenalineman1 and where does the majority of the rain fall? everywhere else from lakes (land, SEA,)...

[theadrenalineman1]

@ther0cks111 oh ya so dude the water evapourates and then eventually comes down as rain