You may recall that earlier on this year, at the start of the Upfest 75 walls in 75 days event, several beautiful new pieces were vandalised in one night. This piece from Jody was one of the pieces. I have been holding out for a long time hoping that Jody would come back and repair the damage, but so far no dice. So my impatience has got the better of me and I am sharing the piece on Natural Adventures in its vandalised state.
I took the feature picture only a day or two after it had been completed by Jody. Pictures of the clean piece are a bit of a rarity, and consequently haven’t been shared much on social media. Jody is a well known Bristol artist who is an old friend of Upfest, creating some amazing walls over the years. This Samurai is a real beauty and an eye-catching piece, but I can’t help getting angry every time I see it because of the writing and the smear on the nose. Some would say that it’s a jungle out there. I would say that there are some idiots out there.
Even with the damage to it, this piece is utterly outstanding – and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Jody will repair it one day.
UPDATE – A day or two after I posted this piece it was repaired, so I returned and took some pictures of what the piece should have looked like:
Natural adventures 
I won’t be posting it until it he sorts it out and if he doesn’t sort it out it wont get posted . . .
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Fair enough.
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Everyone else has managed to sort their piece out and some were done within 24 hours.
His is a reminder of something awful that happened and I just don’t understand why he doesn’t take an hour to put it right . . .
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I’m not sure how much work it would involve.
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Most of the damage is on the red surrounding background as far as I can see . . .
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Yep, and the nose.
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Bizarrely as of today it’s been fixed . . . 😉
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I’ll have to get some new pics next week when I am back
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Where are you at the moment?
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In Cornwall fishing. Liskeard, Looe, Fowey sort of area.
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That sounds like you’re in the right place doing the right thing
Have you caught much?
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Caught enough, but being there and great company were more important.
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