Zeros

There was a time when street art meant a stenciled rat on a brick wall or a mysterious little girl holding an umbrella. Simple. Elegant. Easy for city councils to pretend they hated it before installing security cameras around it, as if it were the Crown Jewels . But now Banksy appears to have entered his Found Footage era, and honestly, it was inevitable. Because apparently regular graffiti is no longer enough. No, now it needs more cowbell : “What if  The Blair Witch Project had a merchandising department?” You’ve probably already seen these new pieces. A grainy childlike silhouette. A figure watching a balloon drift into the background,  that somehow looks exactly like the Morton Salt girl, after surviving three nights in an abandoned asylum . And a smiling cartoon face peeking through the corridors of time and space, like the last frame of a cursed VHS tape somebody found in a drainage tunnel beneath Cleveland . And the art critics get it . “...