A Banksy street art piece IKEA PUNK which we reported on here in september and later confirming Banksy authenticity here (after a banksy.co.ukupdate) has been defaced. Ironically the defacing occured during a public vote that was taking place urging the Sutton council to preserve the street art using the same style graffiti the piece was criticizing.
Could this have been an intentional act of irony by Banksy? Or just another Can kiddie doing his fisher price my first graffiti piece high on krylon fumes marking his territory like a feral kitten. Either way it’s unfortunate considering that more than 93% of the 250 voters had cast there vote to keep the piece in tact. Unlike the majority of street art and graffiti, Banksy’s street art is widely accepted by the mainstream in bristol. It doesn’t hurt them to keep it up economically speaking either… 300,000 plus visitors traveled to Bristol earlier this year to view his graffiti and to attend the Banksy Vs. Bristol exhibition.
Sadly enough this isn’t the first time a Banksy piece has been defaced prooving preserving street art is sort of like trying to keep an ice sculpture from melting.
