Just A Car Guy: Bansky, that brilliant bastard, come up with a fantastic subway rat concept about the virus. The subway cleaners, oblivious to what the eff they were seeing, immediately cleaned it off. It's gone. Only the images of it being painted on remain

Friday, July 17, 2020

Bansky, that brilliant bastard, come up with a fantastic subway rat concept about the virus. The subway cleaners, oblivious to what the eff they were seeing, immediately cleaned it off. It's gone. Only the images of it being painted on remain

As the Instagram video ends, "I get lockdown" is written on a wall during a stop, and "but I get up again" appears as the doors close.

This is a riff of the lyrics "I get knocked down, but I get up again," from the song Tubthumping, by Chumbawamba. https://youtu.be/2H5uWRjFsGc

The piece, If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get, was painted inside a Circle Line service carriage.

But by the time he unveiled the work on his Instagram account, it had been wiped away by Transport for London (TfL) cleaning crews.

A TfL source said: "It was treated like any other graffiti on the network."

Banksy, who has previously destroyed his art on purpose when greedy bastards were auctioning it for millions, knew exactly what would happen to his work by putting it inside a carriage.

This was perhaps all part of the plan.