He’s doing his best to qualify as an “underground” artist.
He’s doing his best to qualify as an “underground” artist.
Banksy made his mark on the London Underground, dipping into the subway with a pile of paint to coat a car with rats engaging in coronavirus-themed behaviors.
On Tuesday, the elusive English street artist — whose identity is studiously kept secret from the broader public — shared a video on Instagram showing the tube as it turned into his canvas.
Banksy dressed as a street cleaner, clad in white and bright orange with goggles and blue gloves.
In the tagged car, an unmasked rat sneezes specks onto a window. Another rodent dispenses hand sanitizer.
“If you don’t mask — you don’t get,” Banksy captioned the post.
Banksy often draws rats. He once coated his own bathroom with them.
At the end of the clip, the car doors close, and a painted sentiment blaring in blue on the wall outside the train — “I GET LOCKDOWN” — is replaced with lettering painted on the closing car doors.
“BUT I GET UP AGAIN.”
