›This looks a bit like an elephant‹—Banksy and cynical and heartless speculation in street art: »What none of them knew at the time, however, was that somebody lived inside. And what happened next exposed not only the hubris of the contemporary art market, but also the comforting decency of its most subversive star. [...] The police, apparently charmed by this friendly eccentric, would leave him alone when they came to clear vagrants from the hillside, sometimes calling up to the tank to say hello. The US postal service delivered mail to his exclusive address: 15145 Pacific Coast Highway. “People left me alone because they thought it was an empty tank and I was just climbing up there with a sleeping bag,” he says. “But I was building inside the whole time.”« [...] He was at home on 21 February, when he heard someone moving around outside. “I looked out of the hatch, and there were two guys there,” he remembers. “I asked what they were doing, and one of them said, ‘We’re just making a joke’. I climbed down the ladder, looked at the writing, and I said, ‘Hey, that looks pretty cool!’ I introduced myself, and the English dude told me his name was Banksy. I didn’t know who he was, so I didn’t think twice about it.”
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:07:52 +0000
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