Another artist and another protest piece about the war in Gaza. This time, some direct talking from the wonderful Merny. A warplane, fully marked up with his trademark letter/number pointers, is accompanied with the words “Stop killing people you tucking fwats”. Hear hear!
Merny’s work is deceptive in so much as it looks naive in style, but there is a deep sophistication that underpins his artwork, which always tells a story, often with a light dusting of humour. The piece is attention-grabbing, and along with all the other anti-war work in the city is representative of a groundswell of opinion that wants piece in Gaza specifically, and in the Middle East more generally.
It looks like Merny took the opportunity, while he was in the area, to paste a couple of posters on a nearby wall, which again have a simple sophistication about them and a wordplay caption “Problems? Just smooth things over”. The picture is of a mechanical sander – a great bit of bonus material from Merny.
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