Image of worker painting over graffiti used as more graffiti
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 07/29/2013 10:45 AM [ Comments ]
A London, UK, graffiti artist that goes by the name 'DS' painted some interesting Hello Kitty cartoon images on the outside of a business; to which the shop owner responded by immediately hiring someone to cleanup the whip holding Hello Kitty. 'DS' not to have his artwork removed so quickly decided to answer with a portrait of the clean up worker. Nicely played 'DS'.
According to the Daily Mail, DS, who is 28, and from London, created his artwork in May but eight hours later he was surprised to see someone already in the process of removing it.
Deciding to document the act of erasing his work, DS took photos of the moment and then used one to show the man that removed it.
Amazingly the artwork featuring the mystery man has not been removed and is still on the wall in Essex Road, Islington, today.
DS said: 'I did the first piece ‘Bad Kitty’ late last year with the second May this year.
'The first piece isn’t my style but I have a bit of a dislike of Hello Kittys squeaky clean image so I wanted to use her and Miffy.
'My reaction to it being removed was a little different than normally.
Knowing a piece as been removed or painted over doesn’t bother me, it’s the name of the game in graffiti but this time was a little different as it only lasted eight hours.
In action: Stencil artist - who is known only as DS - decided to make the removal of his first piece of graffiti the basis for his second work
In action: Stencil artist - who is known only as DS - decided to make the removal of his first piece of graffiti the basis for his second work
'So you can imagine my frustration when coming back I found the council (or private company I’m not sure) starting the process of erasing it from the wall - which I documented.
'Looking through the images I took I saw a great one of the removals man so I wanted to put him up in the same space.
'Having known they were mighty quick to respond to graffiti there I was up early the next day in hope to get a photo of him, removing a stencil of him, removing a stencil.
Deciding to document the act of erasing his work, DS took photos of the moment and then used one to show the man that removed it.
Amazingly the artwork featuring the mystery man has not been removed and is still on the wall in Essex Road, Islington, today.
DS said: 'I did the first piece ‘Bad Kitty’ late last year with the second May this year.
'The first piece isn’t my style but I have a bit of a dislike of Hello Kittys squeaky clean image so I wanted to use her and Miffy.
'My reaction to it being removed was a little different than normally.
Knowing a piece as been removed or painted over doesn’t bother me, it’s the name of the game in graffiti but this time was a little different as it only lasted eight hours.
In action: Stencil artist - who is known only as DS - decided to make the removal of his first piece of graffiti the basis for his second work
In action: Stencil artist - who is known only as DS - decided to make the removal of his first piece of graffiti the basis for his second work
'So you can imagine my frustration when coming back I found the council (or private company I’m not sure) starting the process of erasing it from the wall - which I documented.
'Looking through the images I took I saw a great one of the removals man so I wanted to put him up in the same space.
'Having known they were mighty quick to respond to graffiti there I was up early the next day in hope to get a photo of him, removing a stencil of him, removing a stencil.
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