Even Banksy Is Working From Home. See How He Turned His Own Bathroom Into a Riotous Mural

Even Banksy, the anonymous street artist, is working from home
these days and, like us, he’s getting a little stir crazy.

The graffiti bandit posted a new interior artwork to his website
and Instagram account on Wednesday afternoon, adding a bit of
levity to the tragic news cycle of recent weeks.

The new work is a domestic scene run amok—one that may resonate
with the many households with homebound children, spouses,
roommates, and pets. Cheekily titled My wife hates it when
I work from home, the work shows a bathroom upended by
stenciled rodents, scampering and careening off the fixtures. Two
appear as if dangling from towel rings like trapeze artists; others
use soap and toothpaste as personal trampolines; another sits on
the edge of a tilted mirror, its reflection revealing yet another
creature who is keeping tally marks like a prisoner marking the
days of solitary confinement.

On Instagram, the artist has posted close-up shots of the mural,
focusing on the painted animals on the wall. The rat, an anagram of
the word “art,” is common feature in Banksy’s street works, and
functions as an allegory in his critiques of capitalism and
waste.

The artist, who is originally from Bristol, rarely offers any
sense (fictional or otherwise) of his personal life, and judging by
the ecstatic
comments—”wife?!??!”—his fans are thrilled with this crumb.

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