Churchill
Outsider Artist and Brain Injury Survivor, LaRey Pablo, pays homage to graffiti maestro, Banksy, in her own rendition of his infamous "Turf War". The iconic creation memorialized the moment a singular piece of turf was placed onto the statue of Churchill during London’s May Day riots in the early 2000's. In her rendition, LeRay utilized her signature media techniques to increase the overall complexity of the piece while staying true to the original image.
Outsider Artist and Brain Injury Survivor, LaRey Pablo, pays homage to graffiti maestro, Banksy, in her own rendition of his infamous "Turf War". The iconic creation memorialized the moment a singular piece of turf was placed onto the statue of Churchill during London’s May Day riots in the early 2000's. In her rendition, LeRay utilized her signature media techniques to increase the overall complexity of the piece while staying true to the original image.
Outsider Artist and Brain Injury Survivor, LaRey Pablo, pays homage to graffiti maestro, Banksy, in her own rendition of his infamous "Turf War". The iconic creation memorialized the moment a singular piece of turf was placed onto the statue of Churchill during London’s May Day riots in the early 2000's. In her rendition, LeRay utilized her signature media techniques to increase the overall complexity of the piece while staying true to the original image.
Banksy's Turf War reproduces a famous portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to which was added a bright green mohawk. Considered to be one of the 20th century’s most significant political figures, Churchill is best remembered for his wartime triumphs rather than his messy dealings with colonialism. Banksy utilized a famous 1941 photograph taken by Yussuf Karsh which is seen as an historical reference to the Prime Minister’s leadership during World War II and his persistence through adversity. However, Turf War should not necessarily be identified as a tribute; in this piece, Banksy actually appeared to be denouncing the constant battles for borders and territory that have come to define 20th and 21st-century politics at great cost to civilian lives with the bright green Mohawk being a witty allusion to Churchill‘s appetite for land.
Keeping Banksy's concepts in mind, the artist, LaRey Pablo, use of hundreds of pieces of torn strips of paper to incorporate her own message into her version of Turf War, in order to further draw attention to colonialism’s global impact on countries, societies, and cultures in the name of land acquisition - one piece at a time.
48 1/4 x 49 x 1/5