Originally completed the night of October 28, the artist told Reuters, “the wall is a message in itself. I don’t need to write ‘Free Palestine’ or something like that, something really direct … that people will ignore.”
"I just paint what I usually paint and maybe people will start looking at the background and looking at the razor wire and looking at the people stuck in here, and maybe that’ll work better."
— LUSHSUX (@lushsux) October 29, 2017
While some Palestinians view Israel’s concrete wall as an attempt to hold territory and deny Palestinians from gaining a state, some Israelis argue the wall is for self-defense.
Lushsux later tweeted pictures of his painted-over art. "New Israeli modern art masterpieces, what do you think?" he quipped.
— LUSHSUX (@lushsux) October 29, 2017
On October 30, the graffiti artist sent out a poll for where his next wall-painting adventure should take him: Mexico’s border wall, Northern Ireland, the Great Wall of China or Other. About 52 percent voted the Aussie should head to Mexico’s border wall next.
— LUSHSUX (@lushsux) October 30, 2017
