Postcard from Paris

By Daniel Burt
Updated August 10 2013 - 12:28am, first published August 9 2013 - 11:59pm
A graffitied van in Paris.
A graffitied van in Paris.

If you park your van on the street overnight in Paris, don't expect it to be recognisable in the morning. The city's graffiti artists don't see the wide, smooth surface of a vehicle as an inviolable and utilitarian piece of personal property; they see it as a public canvas. "A new van takes time to get hit," says Demian Smith, my guide on a street-art walking tour.

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