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Somehow it’s more ominous and powerful now with just the outline
They gave this piece history.
That photo with a judge hurrying along and the graffiti besides him was an absolute masterpiece, I didn’t think it could be toppled, and yet now we have this bad attempt at washing it away that not only didn’t hide it, it made it dark and grim…
It’s an analogy of how every corporate dictatorship has handled the genocide and protestor response.
It was always the point.
It’s the same reason it was done in a camera dead zone created by turning a camera away slowly day by day.
Is this true? About the camera.
From what I’ve read yes. It’s directly under one CCTV camera and another had to have been moved for a Blindspot to exist there.
Put it back
We can tell more about a society by the art they don’t allow than by the art they do.
I’m 41 and this is deep
Now it reminds me of the shadows left by people in a nuclear blast. Banksy is a frickin genius.
Have you seen Thunderbolts?
Oh wow, they actually did. That’s a multimillion dollar artwork power washed off a wall.
And not very well, either.
I’m not familiar with the building, but it looks like it could be limestone, which is porous. That would make it difficult to remove something painted on without removing a decent amount of material from the surface. The paint is probably in there pretty good, and power washing may have pushed it deeper.
They hand washed it. The chemicals are probably just drying out.
The remaining outline reminds me of the silhouettes left of people on stone after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is in some ways more haunting and powerful.
Literal whitewashing.
Now, it looks like the remnants of nuclear blast victims as if to say you gotta blow it all to smithereens before this can be fixed.
That’s all the more powerful, they can try to silence people but we still those who are missing.
I wonder how hard it would be to make a stencil to somewhat recreate the original in a way that could be quickly applied. For scientific reasons, of course.
Not to hard. You can find stencil creators online and use a projector to scale up
Philistines
Interestingly, Philistine as a slur (meaning uncultured people) originated from biblical Israel’s disdain for the Philistine people, who lived in modern day Palestine.
…huh.
That actually is interesting and somehow says something about current day events…
This was intentional. Enigma.
Still beautiful
