Month: April 2020

The following video shows a brick wall of a utility building that was vandalized. The graffiti vandalism was removed using a product called Watch Dog Wipe Put Porous Surface Graffiti Remover from an organization called Dumond. The product is applied to the graffiti vandalism, allowed to sit for 15-30 minutes to dissolve the spray paint, and then power washed.

Disclaimer: Maryland Citizens Against Vandalism (MCAV) is a non-profit organization with no commercial interests in any particular commercial graffiti removal product. However, MCAV does advocate for particular graffiti-vandalism cleaning methods that prove to be successful in removing graffiti without damaging the original surface.

Spray-paint vandalism is often excused as an outlet for artists who want to engage in public art. This is a dishonest argument. If graffiti vandals really cared about public art, they would not deface the actual public art of others. The following brief news story exposes the true nature of graffiti vandalism. It reports on a large commissioned public artwork in Atlanta that was eventually completely defaced by spray-paint vandals over the next five years. Spray-paint vandalism is not about art. It’s about dominance.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/vandals-spray-paint-graffiti-over-1-000-feet-of-boulevard-tunnel-mural/993613373/