Danish artist Marco Evaristti took 780 gallons of red paint, three fire hoses and a 20-member crew  to Greenland in search of a blank canvas large enough to accommodate his creative impulse. The result is a blood-red iceberg now sitting off the country’s western coast. The work is part of his Trilogy series.

“Trilogy comprises three projects that deal with the themes of territories and states. Using fruit color and fabric, Evaristti coloured an ice cube in Greenland, areas of Mont Blanc and a sand dune in the Sahara, red. He then declared them all as his territory and named it ‘Pink State’. The work is a series of transient changes in nature, touching on issues of environmental pollution, territorial demands and political methods.”

Evaristti was arrested during the Mont Blanc painting.

“This simple, yet effective concoction is an old favourite of gardeners trying to encourage moss growth and provides an excellent alternative to spray paint.”

You can create your own, slow growing, natural (organic) and impermanent murals, typography, or graffiti anywhere!

Find a suitable damp and shady wall on to which you can apply your moss recipe (I’ll provide that, via mossgraffiti). Paint your art or design onto the wall by hand or using a stencil. Eventually, as long as the conditions are good and damp, moss should form and grow into a whole rooted plant – maintaining your chosen design before eventually colonizing the whole area.

Here is the Recipe:

• 1 can of beer
• 1/2 teaspoon of sugar
• several clumps of garden moss
• You will need a plastic container with a lid, a blender and a paintbrush.

Now that you have the recipe, you are free to go out into the world and create green, living graffiti!

I find the ways in which people personalize the urban world around them fascinating – especially when it is in such a unique way! I was familiar with guerrilla gardening, but this is completely new and exciting to me! I might just go make my mark on the world this weekend!