So this is what Jesus would do, right? The Lord and Savior, who in the Bible actually multiplied fish and loaves of bread to feed people – would approve of us stomping among the cacti and tumbleweeds under the punishing hot sun in the desert and dumping on the sand jugs of water that were left for poor desperate Christians (~80 percent of Mexicans are Catholic), some of whom are possibly even named Jesus? Somehow we think that its perfectly acceptable to go around destroying jugs of water in the desert because people who are thirsty might drink it.
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Yes, it has come to this, in a nation that often proudly brays sanctimoniously about its Christian traditions and of being full of good God-fearing people. “To raise the call of our faith traditions as an act of resistance against the cruelty and violence that dominate US policy and actions,” says Street Artist and social activist Chip Thomas (aka Jetsonorama) about this new project of wheat-pasting his photographs that feature jugs of water in the Arizona desert.Ĭhip Thomas. One suggestion from readers was for a mural of The Simpsons and the exhortation to “Be Happy.”īelow is a video of the original INO mural when it first appeared. Only a day after the piece was buffed, the local paper took a rather lighthearted approach by publishing Photoshopped options to replace the mural, which they dubbed “ Angel of Death”. “They were quite conservative and were fighting this in such a diplomatic way.” INO says he appreciates that, if this was in fact a form of censorship, it was done by official proclamation and without contentious attitude. Many observers of the Street Art scene might suggest that a (nearly) three year “run” by a mural piece is quite respectable and the artist should be pleased, especially when you consider the nature of the illegal and ephemeral Street Art scene where a new artwork is not guaranteed to remain for even one day. INO’s original “Man Without a Name” made the neighbors feel gloomy in Minsk.
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“I know that some people have curtained their curtains with curtains – so that even accidentally their eyes don’t fall upon a ghost angel,” says a resident who lives across from it, according to our translation of the Onliner’s July 27 article about the freshly painted “Man Without a Name.”Ĭity officials and the administration of the Oktyabrsky district have so far avoided the controversial nature of the mural, according to the artist, by focusing on a necessity to install new thermal insulation, but INO appears to doubt it. INO peaking through the curtains in Minsk. The sentiment would not have been explicit to the average viewer, but local website Onliner says that the eight-story piece was not accepted well by some the neighborhood, and that it even sparked petitions by those who found the mural objectionable, as well as those who supported it. At the time he painted it with the “Urban Myths” project he said, “It is dedicated to all those who were executed and after some time, it was proved that they were innocent.” (Photo © )Ī mystery figure cloaked in a hoody with his face replaced by a burning candle flame, the image on the high-rise building on Voroniansky Street became quite recognizeable, with or without viewer’s knowledge that it was essentially a critique against the country’s death penalty. Workers beginning the yellow buff of INO’s anti-death penalty mural in Minsk. “I think it is interesting how a society reacts to an intense form of public art like this – a large scale mural with a message,” says Greek Street Artist INO when discussing the recent decision to buff his multi-story 2015 mural in Minsk, Belarus. ” Struggling with addiction many times, he took his own life in 2010 and he is also slowly transforming into a kind of folk hero for some. On the Wikipedia page about the actor it says, “His performances were praised by critics and he developed a rebellious image that made him popular among artistic youth and the “ Sixth Generation” of Chinese directors. “He is my favorite Chinese film actor and he is a legendary actor in China,” the artist tells us.
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Of course the language and tags are likely in Chinese and the honored pop culture figures are more likely to be Chinese film stars, like this new digitized stencil by Street Artist 0907 of Hongshen Jia ( 贾宏声).Ġ907. Wandering along a footpath under the elevated street in Beijing these days you are likely to find the same sort of graffiti tags, wildstyle burners and stenciled celebrities that you discover in so-called Western city graffiti/Street Art scenes.