Round and About in Shoreditch

So what do we make of this then, on Blackall Street? 

A comment on contemporary London, perhaps? The colourful, proud Muslim women, newcomers to the capital, look on in ill-concealed disdain at the antics of this bizarre character carrying a piano on his back - representing, perhaps, the traditional cockney spirit: perverse, scruffy, burdened, anarchic, and resolutely monochrome.

On the other hand the proximity of the different images could be - well, almost certainly is - simply a matter of chance. You never know with street art. 

No doubt about the message here, round the corner in Paul Street, in this latest example of the worrying trend towards religious graffiti (albeit of a new-age mystical bent):

 

For graffiti traditionalists - Garbo #1:

and Garbo #2:

And, for something completely different, an old Citroen by the canal in Hoxton:

Comments

[Martin Adamson]

Ties in with your Kharkov post, in French war films the Gestapo ALWAYS have those kind of Citroens.

[Fabian from Israel]

You have seriously creative and deranged people in London. Don't they ever work?