Interestingly, both of the Boston area Banksy pieces are on Essex St:. Does that mean anything? Is there an Essex Street in any of the other nearby towns? Most of these seem improbable to me, other than maybe Brookline, or maybe Somerville or Charlestown. But they start getting pretty suburban after that.
But, again, why "Essex"? In a comment on this photo , Birbeck helps clarify:. I can only surmise that he's having a 'dig' at Essex UK, especially with the misspelling of 'Loitering'. It was also the region that once had Europe's largest Ford motor factory. In its heyday, 1 in 3 British cars were made in Dagenham, Essex. Pay was good for such unskilled labour, generations worked mind-numbing routines on assembly lines for 80 years. In the recession ended the dream.
This photo appeared on Grafitti - A arte das ruas on Yahoo Meme. Bristol underground scene. Banksy is a pseudonymous [2] [3] [4] British graffiti artist.
He is believed to be a native of Yate , South Gloucestershire , near Bristol [2] and to have been born in , [5] but his identity is unknown. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late s. His street art , which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat , who began to work with stencils in in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late s and early s.
His art has appeared in cities around the world. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti. Banksy's first film, Exit Through The Gift Shop , billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie", made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. From the start he used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces, too.
