NemO's - Decaying Street Art

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"BEFORE and AFTER" is a range of work depicting street art decaying over time. Artist NemO's starts with building up the layers of the image, starting with the skeleton. This is then covered with newspaper before the newspaper is painted with a figure. Over a number of days, the image suddenly changes gradually with bits of the newspaper torn off to reveal the skeleton underneath.

The mural below appeared one weekend in Shoreditch, London. By the next weekend, it had progressed to its skeleton stage. I walked by the mural every day to photograph the changes, but the changes were less gradual in this instance, and there were only two stages. I was happy to see the process finished without too many people tagging over the mural, which is what I feared would be the fate of this mural. The "before" and "after" stages are documented below with the word "Prey" changed from "Pray".

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NemO's

You can watch one example of his work decay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPehBL5c7vo&feature=youtu.be 

More work and information about the artist can be found on his website: http://www.whoisnemos.com/

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