Hey, we were right to call it Banksy’s London Street Zoo all along. After 8 days of painting around London with different stenciled animals, today, Day 9, sees Banksy head to the London Zoo to paint a gorilla letting the animals out of confinement. If this is the last day of the Street Zoo, it has actually been a nice distraction during the doldrums of summer art activity, a good reminder of the animals we have captured and kept in captivity would much rather be roaming free, a good conversation to have with the kids about the environment and climate change. Perhaps even better just a wink to treat the streets as a giant playground, as it should always have…

Are we having fun? At the artist Banksy’s suggestion, we are having a little fun as go across the English capital (or UK capital if you want, it is, indeed, the capital of both) in Banksy’s London Street Zoo. The rhino, cleverly placed atop an old car, is on Westmoor Street in Charlton, south-east London. As it pertains to yesterday’s piranhas piece, the Guardian noted, “In the historic courts, Judge Mark Lucraft KC discharged a jury after it failed to reach a verdict in a death by careless driving trial and suggested they might enjoy the warm weather with a visit to the nearby Banksy instead.” Might be a tad bit of morose fun, there… 

On day 7, Banksy painted swimming piranhas on a phone box in the City of London Police “sentry” box as part of the Banksy’s London Street Zoo. He mentioned something about uplifting the people, and I do feel, in my heart of hearts, that swimming piranhas might be slightly on the menacing side, but I haven’t swam with piranhas in a bit. 

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