The piece features the artist's signature rats, lots of pale-green spray paint, and a hazmat suit.
The piece, captioned “If you don’t mask - you don’t get,” features one rat appearing to sneeze and spread the coronavirus, represented by pale green paint, throughout the train. Another rat is holding hand sanitizer while multiple rats use face masks as parachutes.
At the end of the video, the words “I get lockdown” appear on the side of a station wall through opened train doors. When those train doors close, the phrase “but I get up again” appears on the doors. After the doors shut, Chumbawamba’s 1997 song “Tubthumping” plays.Banksy’s art tends to offer commentary on current cultural, political and social issues.
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