Trying to Remove the Elephants

On our last morning in Madrid, I went out to take photos of pieces I had put up the night before. Just down the street I found this Council worker trying to remove my Elephant Pole pasteup from the pole - thinking it was a sticker. Before long he gave up trying to peel it off. He got out his shovel; for a moment I thought he was going to use it to scrape it off - but he just went about shovelling up some stuff from the ground.

A Short Story about Malasaña Street Art

October 3rd 2012
This Blog features a range of Madrid street art: a combination of what I found in the streets of Malasaña - the inner suburb where we stayed - and what I added in my wanderings over the four days we stayed. As Phoenix the Street Artist I have made street works in Melbourne, Sydney, and Byron Bay; in Spain in Barcelona, Cadaques, Granada, Seville - and these pieces in Madrid. Other pieces of min ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more

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