20 Masterpieces of Green Graffiti
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Environmental Artist – Anna Garforth
Mossenger is the brainchild of London-based artist, Anna Garforth. Inspired by guerilla gardening collectives, who aim to enrich dilapidated public spaces, and Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who creates site-specific art installations from materials and tools found on site, Anna is currently working on an on-going moss street art project.
Anna knew people had been growing for moss for years so when she came across a recipe on the internet she decided to further explore the possibility using it in her art. Realizing the mixture may have taken several weeks to prepare and produce unpredictable results, Anna went for the quick fix, big effect.
Attaching the moss to the wall using completely biodegradable ingredients, the moss will hopefuly colonize and grow.
Anna explains:
“This is the first in an on-going project, and I have much experimentation to do in terms of how and where I place it. The piece is the first sentence of a verse. The second sentence of the verse will be made and displayed somewhere else around the city [London] in a couple of weeks time, and so on until the whole verse has been transcribed.”
The Poem, penned by Anna’s good friend and poet, Eleanor Stevens, will be features in four parts. The next sentence in the prose is, ‘Watch your skin peel’, so look out for it on your travels.
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Moss Artist – Edina Tokodi
1. Decorating the ceiling of the Designers and Agents Green Room in Los Angeles.
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Hungarian moss graffiti artist, Edina Tokodi, is renowed for her moss art of rabbits and animals dotted around New York streets; here we present her more recent installations.
2. A moss grandfather clock grows from a concrete column.
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What’s so refreshing about Tokodi’s work is that she urges people to interact with her art, to touch it, feel it, use all the senses in appreciating this environmental and natural art; a far cry from the stiff, sterile art galleries we’re more familiar with.
3. A moss tree is home to Inke Heiland’s wallpaper birds.
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September 7th, 2008 at 8:31 am[...] Graffitis verdeswww.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/moss-grass-graffiti/2… por SweetCryptonite hace pocos segundos [...]
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DIY Green Graffiti: Making Moss Murals | Daily Impact On Says:
September 9th, 2008 at 5:07 pm[...] – I came across a cool article on Environmental Graffiti about Anna Garforth and her Mossenger street art project that involves adorning public walls [...]
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hetkanWel.net » Blog Archief » graffiti met mos- inspirerend weblog over onderwijs, spiritualiteit, wetenschap en samenleving. Says:
September 18th, 2008 at 9:06 pm[...] er meer over op environmentalgraffiti.com of [...]
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Green Graffiti | Rough Diamond Says:
November 7th, 2008 at 1:22 am[...] Environmental Artist – Anna Garforth. Inspired by guerilla gardening collectives, who aim to enrich dilapidated public spaces, and Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who creates site-specific art installations from materials and tools found on site, Anna is currently working on an on-going moss street art project. [...]
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Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Archive » God Of The Rock Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 7:14 am[...] that some people have gotten it to work without photoshop…. the only way to get this formula to work, it would seem, is to nurture the moss to maturity indoors, then transplant it outdoors and hope it [...]
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Cleanvertising, dé groene marketingtrend van 2009! « Kids2 Blog Says:
February 12th, 2009 at 11:29 am[...] guerilla advertising ideeën geboren uit de street art. Zo is er in dat milieu al langer sprake van moss graffiti en reverse [...]
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Inspirational Books I: Guerrilla Art « Pervasive Games: Theory and Design Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 12:53 am[...] The single coolest thing — new for me — was moss graffiti: Put moss and buttermilk into a blender and paint a shady wall with the resulting milkshake. Google tells me it is really cool. [...]
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Art Monday: Moss Art and Moss Graffiti | Twin Cities EcoMetro Play Says:
October 15th, 2009 at 5:13 pm[...] wall or a patch of ground? With a little coaching and watering, grow moss into shapes such as a poem, an eco statement, or animals. Full instructions are on Instructables. Image credit: [...]
September 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
awesome! i’m too intimidated to try making art on anything but paper! good work!
nice post.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:12 am
this doesnt really explain how to grow the moss spores etc. is there a link missing or something?
September 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Could someone please post some info on how to actually do this?
What do you do with all these ingredients? Just put them in a blender? The directions say,
“As soon as it starts to grow, transplant it in your chosen location and watch your graffiti art spread.”
Do I paint out what I want indoors and then just try to stick it to the wall once it starts to grow? What kind of moss is this? Is there a good place to find it?
September 10th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I clicked on the ’show me something random’ link on the yahoo home page and it brought me here….I was gob smacked with the waterfall and the mona lisa – beautiful art is all I can say.
September 14th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I’m graffiti artist for 10 year and never saw somethings like your.
Only what I have to say is congratulations.
I’m brazilian and the only difference of our own style is straight names.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I love natural arts. It’s so cool.
February 15th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Hi That was a wonderful thought , and you can provoke a scientific temper . This will certainly make people think about the habitat in which they live, and would love their children to live also. Great going . Let us be in touch. regards, giri
March 11th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Hello,
I have a question, because I preparing an exipition with a countainer like that (http://www.thema-container.de/pics/container.jpg) I want to put the moss on it and let it grow for few months, but i’m not sure if it will work because the texture of the container. Do u think it could work or not?
anyway really nice post
April 16th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
here is a similar project:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finishing-school/sets/72157605530434347/
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Many thanks for picking up on the story – those are some great links you found – I’m green with envy hah. Let’s hope that people get their priorities right next year and try and create some green graffiti rather than whitewash the world (again). I would *love* to trade blogroll links if you’re ever inclined? Great site – expect an article on environmentalgraffiti.com at my blog v. soon!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Horribly incomplete article. How is the graffiti created? Do you glue it to a wall?
To reiterate another post – do you put the ingredients in a blender or what?
Incidentally here is the author’s recipe for Banana Bread:
something yellow
flour
a pan
nuts optional
Enjoy this delicious loaf of !*^#@
August 12th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Hi,
Here is the interview of Anna Garforth about her next project out of bark tree, guerrila gardening, the relationship between ecology and business, and more…
Check it out here
http://spationauts.de/2009/08/07/interview-guerilla-gardening-by-anna-garforth/