Street art · London
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
By Yinka Shonibare
Look up close and you'll spot the giant wax seal sealing the deal on Yinka Shonibare's "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" — a Trafalgar-era vessel wrapped in his signature Dutch wax batik sails, questioning empire one stitch at a time.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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