Reverse graffito/graffiti

[Charles C Doyle]

Years ago, I published a note tltled "Folk Epigraphy by Subtraction" in _Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore_ 7 (1981): 49-50.  It's about the creation of "graffiti" messages by scraping away letters or words from the instructions on electric hand-dryers in public restrooms.

Charlie
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Subject: Reverse graffito/graffiti
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Reverse graffiti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_graffiti) is the =
result of cleaning the dirt off a wall to create art.

In addition to the Italian Wikipedia =
(http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_graffiti), I see "reverse =
graffito" at =
http://www.austro-arab.net/en/magazine/magazine/article/kunst-beginnt-auf-=
der-strasse/ and it's also used in numismatics (along with "obverse =
graffito").

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA=

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