#paint dump

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Paint dumped in intersection in Berlin at Rosenthaler Platz to stunning effect

This is reminiscent of a similar action artist Santiago Sierra did in Mexico city years ago. He dumped chalk in an intersection and let the cars "draw lines" as they drove through it. It has a much more ephemeral, ghostly effect. That action was not nearly as wasteful and toxic as dumping several gallons of paint onto city streets. I have a photo of the chalk action and will try and dig it out and post it.

Here is a longer description of the paint dumping:

Last week a group of cyclists dumped 13 gallons of paint on the road at Berlin’s busy Rosenthaler Platz, creating a series of colourful lines as cars drove through. The various colours of paint were dumped onto the road in large puddles at different locations throughout the intersection. As traffic drove through, the paint was spread around creating lots of colourful lines. The whole action took only a few seconds: bikers had poured paint from big boxes in front of cars that waited for green lights. So the cars and their wheels, if the driver wanted it or not, became the brush tool for this guerilla public art piece.The creators of the project posted signs on post nearby explaining that the paint wasn’t harmful and would simply wash off with water.