LNY, the New Jersey based street artist, is empowering, inspiring and dynamic. He creates lively murals in which movement, black and white drawing and pigmented colors collide creating an explosion of fantasy. LNY is inspired by “anybody who is going hard and doing his or her thing… either art-wise or not. This game is not about limits or rules so you’ve got to make your own. I try to surround myself with people that inspire me and they range from friends to family members to public figures like Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker.”
Spotted on 444 Jefferson St, Brooklyn, NY.
On his blog LNY explains that “this mural is to be read more like an encyclopedia than a novel and it relates to the profitable demonization of a demographic in a city such as New York City. It’s about abuse of power, both judicially and economically, about an imposed destiny on the disfranchised and about the incredible triumph over these circumstances that we can witness daily. This is a portrait of victory, defeat and of a young man named Malik from East New York, Brooklyn.
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Very good work !!