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Sometimes art is what you add. Other times you can be an artist by removing something. If you look at the city you live in, it consists of roofs, walls, plaster and roof tiles. If anyone has had extra fun so you'll also find graffiti, street art, sprayed stencils and some bored kids who’ve left their tags on fuse boxes. But if you look really close you’ll also see the dirt. The dust is composed of fumes, particles of shit and millimeter sized garbage bombs. There’s a layer over everything. You know the black string you can sneeze out some days if you live in a big city. That is what I’m talking about. Dirt.

You’ll have to think the opposite of how you do when painting a painting. In this case, the board already covered with black paint. What you do next is remove small areas so that patterns, lines and motifs occur. Since the color in this case is dirt you’ll need your brush to be something cleansing. Perhaps a cloth, a dish brush or a sponge. Locate a dirty surface such as the front of a fuse box, a wall, a sidewalk or anything. Start by cleaning small areas at a time. Think backwards, and suddenly you have a neat design, a funny man or a whole landscape.

A simple classic is to write your name in the dirt covering an old car. Then with a small cloth you can wipe the face of an urban Buddha in a gray dusty concrete tunnel on the way to work. The dirtier the better. The more dirt, the more color you have to work with.

Bonus: Make art in the sand - By Ilana Yahav - www.sandfantasy.com