Gotta hand it to the authorities. At first, I was mad when they scrubbed the Banksy, but they have unintentionally made one of the most powerful artworks of all time.
Everything they do to hide or erase it makes it look more poignant than the original.
@cmconseils It's maybe not completely « unintentional ».
I have been doing this job, and we sometimes did this kind of thing on purpose.
I wonder how it worked out that the surface details were easily removed, but the stain in the masonry went too deep for them to remove the shadow.
It's almost like Banksy saw this coming, and outsmarted them ahead of time...
Remember that the judges & magistrates responsible for implementing anti-protest laws -- they have funding.
The fossil fuel industry is funding anti-protest legislation in every democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/mountain-valley-pipeline-protest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/anti-protest-bills-trump
I'm gonna guess that if they'd spoken with Banksy's team, they'd have told them a simple cleansing solution that'd have had wash straight off. But they piled in and used regular chemicals that just stained it worse and drove the paint into the pores of the stone.
This completes the piece by giving it the title "The Judges' Confession."
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