Art critic wanted

[kangeiko]

A series of artworks have appeared down my street over the last few days, always overnight. They are:

1. several instances of rats holding globes with blood dripping from them, one large-ish, on an electrical box cover, one medium, in conjunction with artwork 2, below, on a whitewashed wall, and one small, above a street sign.
2. a medium-sized image of the fat bloke (Hardy?) from Laurel & Hardy, grinning and holding a machine gun. Someone has added - presumably afterwards? graffitting the graffitti? - "that's another fine mess you've got me in!", on a stretch of whitewashed wall. (Whitewashed for the purpose, I should think; the rest of the building is brick and unpainted.)

There were a bunch of people outside today, as well as photographers from various papers. There is speculation that these are Banksys. Now -
1. The images are vaguely repetitive, with the rat appearing several times in various guises.
2. The writing appears to have been added afterwards, but otherwise the jolly fat man with the machine gun seems to fit Bansky's known subject matter.
3. These are on a residential street, not on a big thoroughfare, and so aren't his usual haunts. On the other side, these are busy residential streets, off a major road.

Thoughts? I did take some pictures, if people would be interested.

Comments

[kakodaimon.livejournal.com]

Banksy on your street would be exciting! That said, the rat holding the bleeding globe is pretty politically disturbing. Vermin bleeding the world dry... no matter who they mean it's trouble.

I'm not sure if it's authentic but this (http://www.woostercollective.com/images/2006/02/2006_1_banksy3.jpg) is ascribed to Banksy, which seems relevant to you. How does the writing compare? I'd love to see the photos, regardless.

[hadeschild.livejournal.com]

Intriguing. I would definitely be interested in seeing pictures.

[wingsmith.livejournal.com]

Yo, have posted the thing. If it needs tagging. could you do that? Since I don't know how.

Cheers, M'dear

W.

[kangeiko]

awesome, will do, thanks. did you include the recipient's name in there? i don't have access to edit the post, so you'll have to add it in if it's not in there already. let me know if you don't have it!