Street art · London

Following the Leader

Six terracotta children scale this Hackney tower block in a chain of linked hands, a relief called 'Following the Leader' cast to look like it's climbing straight out of the brickwork itself.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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