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14 October 2010

#287 Get your own graffiti wall

We all live somewhere, be it on a park bench or in a stately home. We probably spend too much of our lives in the home. In the middle of autumn, it may take some effort to leave the bed at all. But since your life shouldn’t be boring just because you’re at home, we proudly present: Seven things you can do at home.

It is illegal to paint graffiti. You can’t go around town with a paintbrush and paint the statues red. It’s not okay to put up mosaic art in concrete tunnels. Old ladies get angry if you pee your name in the snow. There are so many fun things that others will object to you doing. But there is no one who can tell you what you can and can not do in your own home.

I had a friend once who went down to the beach with a trailer and filled it with sand. Then he went back home and made the whole apartment into a beach. Afterwards, he invited his friends to a beach party. I am not saying that he could keep the apartment. I'm not saying you should make your apartment into a beach. I’m saying that a white wall that has been covered with graffiti for a few years is easy to paint white again. And during the years in between, you can do whatever you want with it. Nobody can prevent you from having graffiti at home.

Text: Navid Modiri

Required time: 
1 day or less
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
Spray paint has a strong smell.
Pros: 
You can sketch, scribble and paint. You can make shopping lists, crossword puzzles and hang man on your wall graffiti. You can do whatever you want on it. You can draw comic strips or write up this week's TV schedule. It’s your wall.