Street art has lately sought to recapture the political message of its yesteryears, with the consumerist satire of Banksy and Obey's Obama poster. A new piece in London is much more direct however, seeking to raise the profile of a single, falsely imprisoned man on Death Row before his time runs out. Making the invisible, visible is a collaboration between the Brothers and Sisters creative team Lisa Jelliffe and Kirsten Rutherford and the German Street Art collective Mentalgassi and amnesty international.
The case of Troy Davis has been a long running campaign for Amnesty, having been imprisoned on insubstantial witness testimony. A lenticular poster by Mentalgassi has been put up on a fence in Central London depicting a close up of Davis' face. The image is a kind of optical illusion which is only visible when approaching the fence from the side but invisible when looking straight at it.
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