IBU.2019
Description
On a small structure on the grounds of The Bureau of Silly Ideas, Arch 18 Valentia Place, there is this stencil of a woman in a traditional seated pose. She smiles warmly at the viewer and is wearing clothes with subtle floral patterns.
Directly beneath the image, ‘IBU.2019’ is spray-painted in red letters. ‘Ibu’ means ‘mother’ or ‘madam’ in Indonesian and Malay, suggesting that the artwork honours a mother figure and was created in 2019.
Above the stencil is a yellow sticker featuring a lorry and Thai text (รถพ่วง, meaning ‘trailer’ or ‘semi-trailer’). It is unclear whether this sticker – and the small sticker bearing the text ‘No one is illegal’ – form part of the same artwork. The artist is unknown.
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Jesse
Street art lover/walker/photographer/researcher irl children’s book publisher, author and translator, living in Rotterdam. My favourite place in the world is London and in particular the area around Brick Lane (Shoreditch).
My avatar is a picture taken at the corner of Braithwaite Street and Bethnal Green Road (Shoreditch, London) of a street art poster by Shepard Fairey and Damien Hirst: Third Eye Butterfly Mandala.
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