Who is Bansky? Bansky is an urban semiotic enigma. Nobody really knows his name or who he is and none of that matters because his urban art speaks in the whole.
Here are some of the images Bansky left behind in the streets and on the walls of New Orleans after the storm:
The ragtag band of musicians are all wearing gas masks.
Were the soldiers sent to save New Orleans saints or sinners?
Rats play a large role in Bansky's city art. Some label his work "graffiti" and try to have it erased.
Bansky knows there are human universal truths that cannot be crushed to the ground without them rising again.
If Honest Abe were homeless in New Orleans -- would anyone offer him a sandwich? Or would retaining possession of his stovepipe hat only be a matter of memories living life in the streets?
We need truth tellers and in Bansky -- with his necessary anonymity -- we are enlightened by his recognition of the brutality of surviving life in the urban core and as we turn away from that confession, we begin to rediscover our repressed morality.
We are Bansky.
The ragtag band of musicians are all wearing gas masks.
Were the soldiers sent to save New Orleans saints or sinners?
Rats play a large role in Bansky's city art. Some label his work "graffiti" and try to have it erased.
Bansky knows there are human universal truths that cannot be crushed to the ground without them rising again.
If Honest Abe were homeless in New Orleans -- would anyone offer him a sandwich? Or would retaining possession of his stovepipe hat only be a matter of memories living life in the streets?
We need truth tellers and in Bansky -- with his necessary anonymity -- we are enlightened by his recognition of the brutality of surviving life in the urban core and as we turn away from that confession, we begin to rediscover our repressed morality.
We are Bansky.
if I had any graphic artistic ability, I think I would have turned into a bansky. He's genius.
Bansky definitely sets the bar of excellence for the rest of us, Gordon. If you visit his website, check out his short movie.
The man's pseudonym is definitely Banksy.