Street art · London

Down a Brick Lane backstreet, two sliced-open faces loom over a…

Down a Brick Lane backstreet, two sliced-open faces loom over a grocery cart trundling by—layers peeled back to reveal a fox, factory smokestacks, and gnashing teeth. Collage-style surrealism turning portraiture into architecture, à la Sandra Chevrie

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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