Painted by Miami based artist Axel Void in 2016 this is a haunting piece which depicts the face of a squinting man which has been cut in half.

Based on his own picture taken in a slum known as G S Nagar in Chennai, India I suppose we can all speculate on the intention behind the mural but isn’t that the nature of art: it’s in the eye of the beholder…

We are all a product of our influences and I have to admit this makes me uncomfortable: does it concentrate on slum conditions in India or is it a wider statement on society in general: slaves to the wage? 

Personally I suspect the latter… comfortable lives, mortgage and credit card payments funded by jobs that are less than fulfilling. Not sure where I am going with this tbh other than to repeat that it makes me uncomfortable, it makes me think and that, as they say, is a good thing…