The British street artist Banksy has confirmed he is behind a new and somewhat cryptic mural painted in north London over the weekend—of a woman holding a pressure washer who appears to have sprayed green paint up the side of a block of flats. Painted on a dilapidated wall on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park behind a recently pollarded tree, the green paint makes the barren branches look as if they are springing into life.
Speculating on social media, commentators suggest the work is either a comment on the climate crisis or companies’ greenwashing of the issue—or a nod to St Patrick’s day, which sees the Chicago River turned green with dye, an apparently environmentally sound practice. Others suggest the streaky paint resembles climate activists’ vandalism of works of art.
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