Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Political correctness in street art

A while back I posted about street art in the Newtown area. Well an awesome book has just come out on this very topic. You'll remember ;-) that in my original post, I told the story of the 'I have a dream' piece:
it was done by a couple of guys illegally over a couple of nights with a cherry picker (!). The Aboriginal flag was added later. One of the guys, Andrew is now in England doing life because he murdered a guy in a squat. He then came to Australia, became a Christian, and later confessed his crime to his Christian mentor, who said he should go back to England and turn himself in, which he did.

Well here's what the book says:
Aiken was on the run from the law after murdering his flat-mate in England . . . but while here had made a decision to redeem himself and in 1997 went back to England to give himself up.

Clearly there's nothing untrue here, but it does make me wonder about censorship of Jesus. And this is in a book that can handle such quotes as, "i think Sydney has by far one of the worst street art scenes in the world".

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