Banksy
This is a graffiti artist that my friend Ken told me about. Ken's a former student who's working on his Masters' in London. Bansky is an artist who really makes you think. Some times it's because of "trompe l'oeil" reality bending, but offen it's because he challenges our political assumptions and our social complacency.
I really like this work, becasue when I first started teaching it was a little Lutheran School in Reseda, CA. The congregation was mostly older, white, middle-class and comfortable. The students were Mexican, Black, Asian, and White, mostly working class, some middle class- their parents wanted to keep them out of trouble and out of public school. But the neighborhood was poor. Black, Mexican, and Middle Eastern, and poor (did I mention that?) The compound had allermed gates all around it. What had once been the FRONT steps to the church (now perpetually locked) faced a street accross from a park and every morning, there sat the homeless people, seeking who knows what? Shelter, solice? But receiving no welcome, let alone help from the church.
Click on the image of the angel or the name Blansky for a link to his website,
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