RE-BLOG: Unintentional modern art, created after removing existing graffiti

_ OttawaStart is on a short summer haitus this week, so we’re re-posting some of our favourite posts from the past few years.  This one was originally published on May 12, 2008 , featuring some “found art” photographed by one of our favourite photobloggers, Robin Kelsey . _

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Robin Kelsey has some more of his great photos and commentary on the Watawa Life blog. This time it’s a post about what happens when the city paints over graffiti , like in the photo above.

"Meanwhile the city continues to erase graffiti from under bridges and overpasses. Sometimes the erasures have a mysterious artistic quality of their own, like monochromatic pseudo-Mondrians. These ones are in the Percy St. underpass. [ Read on for more pics... ](http://www.robink.ca/blog/graffiti-update/) "

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** See also: ** Ottawa Art Guide

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