Melbourne Graffiti Artist Lushsux Posts About Breaking Curfew To Paint A Dan Andrews Mural (???)
If this is meant as a tribute, we're not sure the Premier would approve.
Melbourne based graffiti artist Lushsux — famous for his political and social satires, as well as painting up giant versions of memes — is currently working on a portrait of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, and posted about breaking Melbourne’s COVID-curfew to do so — an act which, uh, kind of goes directly against anything Andrews stands for.
As first spotted by Pedestrian.TV, the anonymous artist — arguably one of Australia’s most well-known graffiti artists — posted on Instagram yesterday about his plans to break curfew to paint a picture of the “megacunt”, which, admittedly, could either be read as praise or criticism. It’s since been changed to “[redacted]”, which is even more ambiguous.
“I’m gonna break the lockdown laws to paint a mural of this megacunt,” he originally wrote alongside a pic of Andrews. “Thought I’d crowdsource a good idea here, maybe someone will have a good one (highly doubtful of this).”
He then later that night posted and then deleted a work-in-progress stencilling of Andrews, with the caption “judas priest – breaking the law .mp3”. Very cool!
As P.TV point out, this was posted at 9.55pm, which either means Lushsux broke the 8pm curfew or is pretending to do so for clout — it’s unclear which is more embarrassing. Given his tendency to troll — earlier in the year 50 Cent got very mad over some of his work, which only prompted Lushsux to double-down — it’s hard to say what exactly is happening here.
Lushsux’s deleted tweet, as captured by P.TV.
Given that Lushsux’s work mostly plays off/directly replicates memes, it’s also difficult to know what the ‘message’ or ‘ideas’ are behind his murals, which would help as a guide to reading this work-in-progress. If he’s critiquing Andrews’ lockdown laws, the idea of breaking lockdown (or at least, acting as if he has) to do so makes sense — but if it’s to valorise him, it’s a little messy, to say the least.
Breaking the 8pm-5am curfew can result in a $1652 fine from Victorian Police. Today, Australia marked its deadliest day of the pandemic so far, with 21 deaths in Victoria: the state’s death toll is now 267.
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