Four images. Four different scenes. Extrapolations from everyday life. Bitter and honest portraits of reality. The name of Zed1’s latest artwork is Box Life and is located in Ravenswood, London, precisely in the Walthamstow Village. This mural takes advantage of the wall’s shape to narrate the emblems and paradoxes experienced during the confinement of this pandemic. This piece is divided into 4 boxes of different colors painted around the shutter of a warehouse used by my friends Fra & Garrett as a storage for their scenographical objects.

The idea at the center of the narration was to depict an ordinary family marked by the rhythm of a life that, during the pandemic, has sometimes flown slowly, sometimes restlessly.

Starting from the top of the yellow box, there stays a melancholy child who’s forced to stay clear from his beloved playground slide, which is wrapped up in tape and far away from him.

Lower down, the red box allows us to take a look at the father’s room, who’s caught as a hostage by the media terror excercised on television. He holds a rosary in his hand and a mask in the other, but this one has turned into a muzzle.

The other son is confined to the gray box at the bottom right, wearing a lion mask whose vitality is expressed solely through the keyboard the boy’s using, a tool for sentencing and bossing in the ocean of information that is the web.

Lastly, the turquoise box opens to the mother's room, whose walls are being demolished with a hammer by the pug, the only family member authorized to go out.

This sequence shots have our eyes following the complexity of the domestic phenomena, and in it the squirrel in the luminous billboard on the right is the only subject that’s capable of rejoicing. He’s celebrating the chance of taking over the city and rejoicing the newfound happiness of the animals.

Source: IG Artist