I think London was more the reason for his decline
As soon as he got a team behind him and lawyers to protect his IP, it became very difficult to claim he was actually sneering at the rich rather than just selling something to them.
His latest stuff is terribly overwrought and charmless and i think he probably knows it
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I dunno, I like a lot of his early London stuff
I stumbled on this one one my way to Notting Hill Carnival as a teen, really liked it, had no idea it was him until I saw it in a book later, but I think the key is that it works in context - his ones with rats messing with junction boxes, ones that take advantage of cracks in a wall, etc.
It's not London, it's the money in London that did it. And just stencilling everywhere without caring about context. Yeah, now he's basically a factory...
edit: argh - bigness!How to un-embiggen?!
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Fri 23 Oct 2020, 11:52,
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If I'd catch the prick vandalising my walls I'd punch him in the throat. Repeatedly.
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Tusk knows where you live, Fri 23 Oct 2020, 12:38,
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Thanks! /utterineptitude
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Fri 23 Oct 2020, 13:20,
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