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Graffiti is one of the most controversial art forms out there since it defaces public property – but what if graffiti artists actually cleaned up the walls they tagged up by etching their sketches into the grime that already exists on them? The delightful process, called href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/01/11/reverse-graffiti/">reverse graffiti or “scrubbing” isn’t new – we’ve written about it href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/18/reverse-graffiti-san-francisco/">here and href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/01/11/reverse-graffiti/">here before – but awesome examples of it keep popping up. Case in point: href="http://neil.iaminawe.com/2010/03/09/green-graffiti-in-the-reverse/258/">one band of students in Durban, South Africa who’ve been gracing spaces with works of the subversive street art form in their area.
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