Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Banksy


My favorite Banksy work.

I believe that the people on the platform are responding to this stencil, which shows how badly people wish for a change to their current situation.

The signs on the road and pathways of our world are writings of control. Banksy is showing that these controls have forced us to act certain ways, removing originality and liberty. He has a series of these including "This is not a photo opportunity" and the 'destructive' "Designated Graffiti Area," which opened a blank wall to graffiti art overnight. These walls filled overnight with those who did the graffiti believing they had following orders, taking nearly all the art, and essentially point, of graffiti out of the work.

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