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Description
In Follow Your Dreams (Cancelled), an exhausted, working class painter stands beside the painted words “Follow Your Dreams”, only to have his empowering message invalidated by a bold “CANCELLED” stamp sprawled across it. The work is a powerful commentary on class stratification in an historically low-income neighborhood of Boston. It is a harsh reminder that the “American Dream” does not always apply.
Banksy’s satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, bridges throughout the world and this 1000pc puzzle!
