A new Banksy mural emerged in London’s Finsbury Park neighborhood over the weekend, to the delight of residents on Hornsey Road. On the side of a currently empty apartment building, the bright-green work aligns with the trimmed limbs of a hedged tree to emulate a weeping willow while a signature stenciled figure equipped with a pressure hose gazes up at the synthetic foliage, drenched in the drips of green paint.
Londoners and outsiders alike speculated that it was a Banksy piece after it popped up on Saint Patrick’s Day, and they were proven right when the artist claimed it in a caption-less post on Instagram today, March 18. Several members of the neighborhood told the Guardian that they believed the mural underscored the current climate crisis. Lidia Guerra, who lives on Hornsey Road, perceived the piece as a message about “the struggle of nature.”
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Prior to the Saint Patrick’s Day addition, Banksy’s most recent public work — an anti-war piece added to a London stop sign in December 2023 — was stolen within hours of the artist’s Instagram authentication. Less than a month before the stop sign had been stolen, a 2017 Banksy mural addressing Brexit was demolished in Dover, England, as it was on the side of a condemned building.
Commenters on Banksy’s latest Instagram post noted that at least thieves won’t be able to make off with the work.
Source: Hyperallergic.com