More Banksy

Hey everyone!

Here’s some more Banksy I found. This work was done in Palestine along the Israel-Palestine dividing barrier known as the Gaza wall. This wall, is 425 miles long, made of concrete and electric fence. Israel erected this wall in order to protect themselves from suicide bombers from Palestine.

This wall (which was deemed the “apartheid wall”) does nothing but restricts people and their freedom, and possibly creates more tension between the quarrelling countries.

Banksy illustrates these ideas perfectly in his artwork done on the wall. He creates images that are designed to draw attention to the wall as a barrier, one that is a form of restriction. He does this by painting images on the wall that shows an escape. He wants people to understand that this wall is almost like a prison wall: there is no leaving unless you can devise a crafty escape like this girl is doing by using balloons.

He also uses images to show a virtual reality of what the world looks like beyond the wall like in the picture depicts two children playing with buckets in the rubble while on the other side of the wall there is a beautiful beach. This image again plays with feelings of restriction, confinement and lack of freedom.

These culture jams are extremely culturally and politically relevant, used as a form of resistance against government policies that control their lives.

Here's a youtube video of Banksy painting these images on the wall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZK7D6WqzR0&feature=related What he did was actually really dangerous and radical, and on a few occasions had a run in with soldiers who pointed guns in his face.

Thanks for reading-- Keekers