Fauxreel Sold Out For Real
If street art becomes associated with guerrilla advertising, we will lose a lot of support. One of the few things that street art has going for it is that people see it as something of a “Voice for the Voiceless”. This generates some sympathy. That sympathy will disappear when the perpetrator is thought to be aggressive companies pushing even further into our lives. Also, I worry that the end result will be closing/licensing of even more of our public spaces. Shutting out street artists.
Fauxreel’s latest work was commented upon after the creative mind behind the illegal Vespa ads posted this photo of his latest work, at Queen and Gladstone, on his website:
The value of thirty pieces of silver just diminished.
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