Found a whole wall of paste-ups that got ruined by rain in one night

I was biking through an alley downtown last Tuesday and saw this amazing collage of paste-ups someone clearly spent hours on, but by Wednesday morning they were all peeling off and ruined. Has anyone else noticed how fragile wheatpaste art is compared to spray paint?

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wade25018d agoMost Upvoted

Did you try a different glue mix? I had the same problem with some pieces I put up near a bus stop, and switching to a 1:3 ratio of flour to water with a little sugar mixed in made them stick way better in damp weather. The sugar helps the paste stay tacky even when it gets a little wet from light rain.

the_drew18d ago

Yeah but doesn't the sugar just attract bugs though?