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Banksy in Port Talbot, Wales

Submitted by mikefortun on

I have no design statement here, but only wanted to archive and document some images and stories that reflect toxic subjects and late industrialism in events that occurred in the midst of our project here.  In December 2018 The Guardian ran a series of articles and accompanying photographs covering the creation and aftereffects of a Banksy artwork in the town of Port Talbot, in Wales, where there is a Tata-owned steelworks.  The artwork is described in one of the articles as "bittersweet," a term that could be applied (or misapplied, as you prefer) to many of Banksy's pieces, and