A brand new spray-painted stencil from the famend road artist Banksy has cropped up within the Taibach space in South Wales, UK.

A video of this newest work appeared on Banksy's Instagram account. It portrays a baby carrying winter clothes with a sled at his toes who's sticking his tongue out to catch snowflakes. As the digital camera pans out, it exhibits a dumpster fireplace on an adjoining wall with ashes and smoke pluming upwards and falling on the kid who believes the ashes he's catching on his tongue are literally snowflakes. The caption on the video merely reads "Seasons Greetings."

The selection of location for this new work can maybe be linked to the truth that Port Talbot was not too long ago named “probably the most polluted city” by the World Health Organization again in May. WHO has since redacted their assertion and admitted the figures it revealed have been unsuitable, however a third-party research carried out in October discovered that the city continues to be very a lot "over the restrict for air air pollution restrict."

BBC News has revealed that Port Talbot native, Gary Owen, messaged the artist on Instagram again in August to see if he may do some art work to focus on the city's air pollution drawback.

Back in October, certainly one of Banksy’s most well-known items, Girl with Balloon, was auctioned off at London public sale home Sotheby’s final evening for a cool £1.042 million earlier than it instantly self-destructed. Learn extra concerning the incident right here

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