Banksy's billboard cat removed as meaning of his London animals revealed

[GReedDiamond]

8. I was lucky enough to be right down the street, at a t-shirt art factory, from the Banksy Show when it opened...

...in 2006.

Drove up the street to the location, parked, and walked in, no crowds or tickets, just went in the gallery/industrial space off of Santa Fe Avenue, near downtown L.A., and had my mind blown.

Right away I noticed that Banksy, who I had never heard of up until that moment, was using stencils/spraypainting - or airbrushing - which is what I had been doing since 1976 on tee shirts and paintings.

Banksy figured out how to market the grafitti part of it and turn it into "fine art."

He also relied on dada/surrealist traditions in a Marcel Duchamp sort of way.

The pink elephant appeared to be in good spirits.