Street Art: Above

A few months ago and soon after the MadC mural was painted (Street Art: Murals by Reka and MadC on Chance Street), the last and most recent artist to add their mark to the street was an artist from California known as Above. In between two walls dominated by Ben Eine's (Street Art: Ben Eine) work, Above painted a series of arrows on the corner of the building. Above's work uses stencils, and some of the work features large and bold arrows. He has also painted his arrows on some shutters in Brick Lane. 

In addition to the arrows, the artist has painted some stencil work in London where the artwork changes depending on the time of day, and he paints a lot of artwork that changes that depend on timing - being in the right place at the right time and viewing from the correct angle. The below stencil is to be viewed at night as the street lamp casts a shadow from the parking sign on the left of the picture directly below, and it looks as if the figure is doing a hand-stand on it. At the moment, I have taken a photo of the stencil doing a hand-stand on a parked car. Below this image, I have included a close-up of the artwork.

Although the stencil above had a protective sheet of plastic around it, this was partially taken down within a few weeks, and another artist tagged over it. At the time of publishing this, it has since been removed from the wall. (For more information about the artist, view https://www.facebook.com/goabove.)