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Sep. 20th, 2006 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
essayelDear Graffitist,
Yeah, I know that you aspire to the heights of style and grace achieved by Banksy, and I sort of agree that you should be able to express your creative nature and have the opportunity to grow and blossom into a full fledged artist.
BUT
Do you really think that scrawling your name in foot high letters on an ancient monument is the way forward? We'll only scrub it off and wish the curse of a billion haemorrhoids upon you so if you're finding it hard to sit down you know why.
Exasperatedly yours,
various castle workers.
Yeah, I know that you aspire to the heights of style and grace achieved by Banksy, and I sort of agree that you should be able to express your creative nature and have the opportunity to grow and blossom into a full fledged artist.
BUT
Do you really think that scrawling your name in foot high letters on an ancient monument is the way forward? We'll only scrub it off and wish the curse of a billion haemorrhoids upon you so if you're finding it hard to sit down you know why.
Exasperatedly yours,
various castle workers.
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Date: 2006-09-20 12:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-20 12:46 pm (UTC)*shrug* Our backs are broad. We can take it.
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Date: 2006-09-20 12:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-20 12:50 pm (UTC)Can't see it being the other way round.
Off to work now, catch you later maybe, if you have time to breathe.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-20 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-20 07:49 pm (UTC)I got back to work and found part of the car park cordoned off with 'Police Line - Do Not Cross' tape because of something nasty that happened last night.
Honestly, the mind boggles.
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Date: 2006-09-20 02:42 pm (UTC)Graffiti on a modern building is bad enough, I don't even want to think about how bad it is on historic stone.
Hopefully the idiot got a lungful of paint fumes.
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Date: 2006-09-20 07:56 pm (UTC)The paint comes off with cellulose thinners and a scrubbing brush but that's fierce stuff as well. We take the view that if the castle has taken everything the world can throw at it since 1250 AD including cannon balls, a bit of scrubbing's not going to hurt it.
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Date: 2006-09-20 04:24 pm (UTC)Graffiti go with abandoned warehouses, smelly underpasses, and railroad bridges. They ought to be on elderly concrete or dirty bricks.
Old castles made of real stone? So totally un-hip for graffiti. If their co-graffitists and admired idols in the cities knew, they'd laugh their heads off.