Murals along the streets of London to raise awareness of tourists and citizens on the progressive decline of bees. These are the street art works of Louis Masai. He doesn't like to call himself a street artist, but he's certainly not a conventional artist.
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Murals line the streets of London to sensitize tourists and citizens on the progressive decline of bees. These are the street art works of Louis Masai. He doesn't like to call himself a street artist, but he's certainly not a conventional artist.
No one probably expected human-sized bees to appear on the walls of London buildings. Louis Masai went into action a Brick lane, one of the most characteristic places in the metropolis for alternative culture.
His fear is that people associate the word "conservation" only with zoology and don't think that each of us can make a difference in their daily life to help save the bees.
How communicate an incisive message on the need to save bees? Louis Masai has decided to create murals to help raise awareness of the decline of bees, in collaboration with Jim Vision.
Pears that the experiment was already successful during the realization of the murals, which would have attracted some onlookers present on the site. Bees are essential forecosystem, for our food and agriculture.
Masai believes that the murals can help for broaden people's horizons and to help them look beyond their noses, towards a really hot topic. In fact, if bees disappear, we will no longer find for sale much of the fruit and vegetables we are used to and which depend on bees for pollination.
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The realization of the murals was accompanied by distribution of wild and local flower seeds. This caused many people to approach curiously and walk away with a bag of seeds to plant for. recreate suitable habitat for bees in the garden and on the balcony. A gesture that we can also do in our homes to help the bees.
The artist champion of bees does not only deal with murals. The works of Louis Masai will in fact be exhibited in London at the Lollipop Gallery di Shoreditch in the next few days, from 30 April to 29 May 2015.
Marta Albè
Photo source: louismasai.com
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