Sweet Graffiti and other acts of wholesome vandalism

This and many others taken over the years around Digbeth, Birmingham UK, no longer exist.

They usually stay for a good long while but eventually another event takes place and a new one goes up.

They are almost never defaced but sometimes the locations become unavailable due to being demolished etc. It's all Victorian era and much is changing in the area, not least because of HS2.

I have the usual online photo storage and I get those memory notifications, and sometimes they include one of these. If it's ok, I'd like to share them here for a kind of posterity. I would occasionally put them on Reddit but as I've found this place now I'd rather it be here.

Thanks.

https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/112399867835015002

Three artists from art collective Creative Debuts have defended a mural it painted on a house in Ilford, England, paying tribute to Palestinian journalists amid calls for its removal from UK Lawyers for Israel.

Alia Shaikh, who owns and lives in the house, said she personally commissioned the piece because she otherwise “felt powerless” about the ongoing atrocities. She said "They’re heroes. Without them, we’d have no idea what’s happening.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/redbridge-palestine-gaza-london-journalists-creative-debuts-b1156089.html

Alt: A photo of a road crossing pole with a sticker bearing the legend: TRAINS NOT PLANES. The sticker also has smaller text: www.stay-grounded .org

Alt: Worn graffiti of blue flowers on a concrete wall with a total blue windowsill at the top of the frame.

https://streetartutopia.com/2024/05/03/the-top-5-must-see-street-art-hotspots-around-the-world/

Alt text: "ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE" stencil graffiti on an interior brick wall with the "A" stylized as a red circled A as commonly done to signify Anarchism.

A simple figure drawn on a green painted surface in florescent yellow-green paint. It kind of looks like a seriffed number '1' with feet, an eye, and a little hat(?)

A flower with a smiley face has been drawn with black crayon(? charcoal?) on a granite wall.

Alt text: Photo of the backside of an advertisement billboard in Lisbon with graffiti writing "TAKE THiS SHiT OFF WE WANT TREES!" There is a busy street with cars in the background, and two people in the front that seem to be indifferent to the text.

A mural that appeared overnight on a residential building in north London is the work of Banksy, the anonymous street artist has confirmed.

The artist claimed the work as his own in an Instagram post on Monday, following a morning of speculation after it was spotted on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park.

The mural is painted on a wall that sits behind a tree as the viewer looks south-east down Hornsey Road.

It features a lifesize depiction of a woman holding a pressure washer, having apparently sprayed green paint up the side of a block of flats. Viewed with the tree in the foreground and centred on the wall, the green paint mimics the foliage of the plant, which has been cut back in a process known as pollarding.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/7588578

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Photo of old or abandoned building, spray painted text "hey, will u shoplift with me?" and cute character in black, pink and yellow.

photo by @[email protected]

A young couple in love, watching the world walk by.

Portugal 2019

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Bathroom wall with tags, hearts drawn with thick black pen and a unicorn with the words "Boys Cry" written on the body

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3 different small pieces on grey wall. Sideways carrot with cute face and smiley and a bio written above with red paint. Upside down cat head with a crown, drawn with black pen. "Free gaza" stencil sprayed with gold color.

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Small round whale with a smiley face. Drawn with silver graffiti spray and black lines on a wall full of tags.

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Black text written on painted wood that states, "May you have the courage to break the patterns in your life that are no longer serving you"

via sunnyside up on Tumblr

Image description – two lines written on a painted metal post – first line written in blue marker “I have” – second line written in black marker “2 Pens”

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In the background, a rusty blade sign affixed to a brick building juts out against the blue sky. In the foreground, a wire sculputre of a smiling sloth clings to an empty sign frame with three paws, the fourth paw holds a wire flag depicting the artist's name in cursive, "Reed."

Reed Bmore

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Graffiti on a black-painted plywood covered wall, written in pink spray paint that states:

“Hey libs, you said you’d riot if Roe got overturned” “Pay up"

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Small ghost with white marker on grey metallic wall. "Booh!" wrtitten above the ghost

A spray painted black outline shaped like a bean, with simple smily face, simplistic arms and legs.

The picture shows a sticker with an orange fox drawn on it, sort of poking up from the bottom left corner. The fox has a green bandana. The fox's speech bubble says "a tasty sandwich will fix me <3"

A heart with a smiling face drawn on tile with chalk