Urban Art Association

Goobye to Old Skool, by Grafter on Jan 14, 2008 23:23:11 GMT 1, OK,....Now I'm really Pissed off...

First the wall in Portebello Road with the painter on it gets put on e-bay.
Then, the big Rat in Old St gets covered up as the whole wall is being dismantled and shipped to the states.

If that wern't bad enough, today i'm driving down Clerkenwell Rd anticipating my daily glance at the hiphopping old codgers, and what do I see...?
SCAFFOLDING.

1st thought: is Mr B updating it...? I start to get excited. So I park up and start to nose around. Then a bloke from the bike shop it's painted on comes over (I think he thought i was nicking one of his bikes).
"What's goinig on", say I.
"Their moving it", says he.
"Who's moving it...?", says I again.
"The bloke who bought it" he says.
He went on to tell me that about 2 years ago a bloke come into the shop and asked about buying the wall. The bike guy put him in touch with the landlord and someone bought the wall 2 years ago. Now they've decided to take it.

Man, I am sooooooo depressed. This was my favourite piece and it made my every working day that little bit cheerier and now it's gone.
It is just the last straw. Surely, the fact that these pieces are done on public/private walls within public sight makes them gifts to the masses to be enjoyed by everyone and anyone who cares to look upon them. Now we've got to the point where some p*ick with a wheel barrow full of cash comes along and buys up a whole F%&*ING WALL..

LEAVE OUR STUFF ALONE, YOU W$&%ERS..
ARE YOU NOT SATISFIED HAVING BOUGHT UP ALL THE PRINTS & ORIGINALS ALREADY..?

Seriously, where does this leave a working class man looking to enjoy Banksy's work?
All prints cost a weeks wages and are snapped up within seconds mostly to people in the know,which automatically doulbes their value, and now we're not even allowed to look at street work for too long before they take that away from us.

I really despair.

P.S: Sorry for the rant. Just had to get it off my chest.