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Written instructions:
Crumble three handfuls of moss and 3 cups of likewarm water into a blender.
Add 2 Tbsp of water retention gardening gel and half a cup of buttermilk. Blend.
Transfer to a bucket. Paint onto rough concrete or wood with a paintbrush.
Mist with water weekly.
You'd be a regular Bob Moss.
.... I'll show myself out.
NO that was great. You can stay.
Do this somewhere like Seattle and you won't even have to mist it manually.
I wonder, if you painted your design, in reverse, onto a piece of paper, could you then use that like a transfer by just pressing it onto the surface you wanted to beautify? It would be quicker than painting it in place, but I don't know it it would transfer enough gel to work effectively. If you could leave the paper in place for a while it might work quite well.
It might be quicker to use stencils, but that's a great idea. I wonder if it needs to be the wet state for it to work.
Could potentially work, you'd need something that grips the moss paint enough to hold the design, but not more than the wall surface. That'd be tricky.
I knew a couple street artists who pre-printed all their work, they used wheat paste to slather it onto back alley walls and painted over top. If you used a cheap, recycled paper that decomposes just a little slower than the moss roots in, that could work to just glue it in place.
Stencils are my personal go-to.
I was thinking, "This requires maintenance, doesn't something have to be done without permission to qualify as graffitti?" I looked it up, and found this caricature of "Rufus" from ancient Pompeii on Wikipedia. Amazing how it looks like something made today!
I guess maintaining vandalism is still vandalism. Gotta keep those lines crisp and fresh.
Pompeii graffiti delights me to no end, it forms a bridge for humanity over time. Reminds me that people are people, no matter where and when they are.
My favorite is:
Miximus in lecto. Fateor, peccavimuṣ, hospes. Si dices, 'quare?' Nulla matella fuit.
We peed in the bed. I admit it, we did wrong, host. If you were to ask, Why? There was no chamber pot.
I mean, they couldn't have gone in a corner or something instead?
The bed was cozier.