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Gradually, all the old squashed gum patches in Muswell Hill are being turned into little pieces of art.
Or graffiti, depending on how curmudgeonly you are.
As you’d expect, they’re very small, here’s my son Harrys eleven year old fingers for scale.
There are literally hundreds of them, maybe four hundred in the High Road alone.
You can commission your very own message.
Take this one – announcing the birth of a child.
I guess it’s cheaper than announcing it in The Times.
Some are more self promotional,
some dedicated to their favourite musician,
or a dog.
Here James professes his love to Daisy. The old romantic – chewing gum outside Sainsburys, never fails.
It raises a few questions: Who does it?
Does he/she work in other areas?
Art/graffiti?
Will the council scrape them up/vandalise them?
How long before they pop up in the ambient section of D&AD for Wrigley’s/Bubblicious?
