Ikari

Ikari

  • 120 x 123 cm

This piece was inspired by Banksy's latest piece which was painted on the Queens building of the Royal Courts of Justice. It was widely read as a critique of judicial and state power, especially in light of recent crackdowns on protests in the UK. Banksy’s work shows authority (the judge) violently silencing dissent (the protester) — a statement about how power suppresses truth and resistance. The red blood on the placard is the cost of standing up. My piece flips that dynamic: Shibtoshi, isn’t authority crushing protest — he’s the leader striking down FUD, the falsehoods used to undermine SquidGrow. The judge’s gavel becomes a paintbrush, repainting red doubt into green growth. In essence. Banksy = the law as oppressor, truth as the victim. My piece = the leader as the protector, FUD as the oppressor. Both works are about power and narrative — but where Banksy's is bleak, my piece is defiant, hopeful, and mythic, it presents Shibtoshi as the hand that reclaims the chart and rewrites the story. His way. I think the name "Ikari" works for this piece (wrath, rage, unstoppable force).

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