Anyone who has traveled to Europe would agree, graffiti is everywhere. Tagging the sides of trains, buildings, trash cans, you name it. However, there is a group of young men out there whose aim is to reverse the stereotypical “mask” of the art form. These reverse graffiti artists from Durban, South Africa refer to themselves as “scrubbers,” creating their art on the side of walls by scrubbing away the debris to create a design (rather than spray painting on top of it).
These young men are students who took inspiration from the work of British street artist Paul Curtis, who first started reverse graffiti. Their objective is to act in the same manner as a graffiti spray painter would, with the wall as their backdrop. However, the difference between these young men and the other “graffiti artists”, or “urban anarchists” (as they would say), is that the scrubbers are bringing back the pureness of a clean wall, or restoring their cities landscapes.
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[via: Inhabitat]
