Last October, citizens and travelers in Central Park, New York were given a surprise art sale. Sold that day were designed to resemble cheap reprints that anyone could have made.To casual on-lookers, the booth in Central Park appeared to be an anonymous art vendor selling replicate Banksy stencils, operated by an elderly man who looked like he had no clue who Banksy was. Banksy creates a lot of his art by hiding in plain sight and that exactly what happened that day in Central Park. Every single print at that vendor was a 100% authentic and autographed canvas by Banksy. The artist redesigned these priceless originals to now resembled the type of common reprints that were regularly sold in Central Park. Original pieces from Banksy can rake in thousands of dollars on the art market, but the customers who bothered to purchase from the seemingly ordinary vendor that day purchased these original prints for between $60-2oo dollars, one hell of a discount. This mirage of an art vendor also provides evidence that Banksy is not in his art for the profit. Here we have an unspoken hint for the general public not to write off the mundane things they pass by everyday. Treasure may become available in the most unexpected places in the most unexpected ways.
Freelance writer and podcaster from Long Island,New York. Recent college graduate with a BA in Writing. Movie-buff who continues to write his own screenplays and has a passion for Quentin Tarantino movies, Doctor Who, and Radiohead. Loves to write, all about getting the exposure online and finding ways to tell his story.
