Instagram Vandalism Tour of National Parks Might Land NY Artist in Trouble

Deface National Parks and boast about it on Instagram, and you could get in trouble.

This is the lesson of Casey Nocket, a New York-based artist who has apparently spent the past few weeks drawing pictures – with paint, not chalk – on various rock faces in protected spaces in National Parks and then posting pictures of the vandalism on Instagram, as Modern Hiker first reported.

Nocket's oeuvre generally involves images of white-skinned women, painted with acrylic paint in some sort of previously-pristine hiked-to spot.

SFist notes that she's been at this for over a month, according to her since-deleted social media accounts, posting photos from nearly every sacred place in California: Yosemite National Park (she scrawled something near the Mist Trail), Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, SFist reported.

Meanwhile, the National Parks Service is on the case. A spokesman for the agency said on Reddit that an investigation is underway, and while no details were divulged, it seems obvious that the Parks Service is taking this seriously and punishment is in Nocket's future.

Where is she now? Unknown, as her social media accounts have been deleted or switched to private ever since they turned her into a fugitive.

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