share your favorite wheatpastes you find!
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What's a wheatpaste?
praxis comrade, praxis .
Wheat paste is a glue made from flour and water that soaks into the paper you put it on so it makes the paper hard to remove
you make a paste with flour and boiling water, after it cools you use it as a glue to wallpaper flyers to things, and another layer on top.
i heard if you mix ground glass (don’t breathe that) or sand into the paste, it makes it impossible to scrape off
pretty much a graffiti technique
IIRC, there's even a basic additive one can mix into the final coat to effectively bind the poster/flyer to the target polymer-sealed surface on a chemical level, all but unifying it with the original structure. Ahem. 🤘🏼
By context I guess it means something like "flyposting" or "paste-ups" i.e. wallpaper pasting up posters, flyers, artworks, statements, placards etc in public places, usually without permission.