It’s a Follow Up Friday!!

The wall I painted Mr. Harper onto was recently buffed. Whoever was sent to paint over the graffiti generously decided to leave my stencil unmolested! (You can see how they carefully went around the outline of the stencils head, and you can also see the little bit of brown paint on his helmet where a less careful tagger dipped into the stencil- now buffed.)

This could be because the stencil was somehow mistaken for official mural work. It could be because the buffman liked the work or was politically sympathetic- Harper hasn’t made alot of friends in Toronto. But it could also just be Harpers unaccountable knack for escaping normal consequences unscathed.

P.S.: The number “900″ on Harper’s helmet was selected to represent, at the time, the estimated number of arrested: the largest mass arrests in Canada ever. That number is now known to be more than 1000.