It's Oh So Quiet

It's Oh So Quiet

Louis Masai

Wimbledon, England

In a mural on the side of a building, an enormous sparrow perches on a sagging chainlink fence while holding a plastic drinking straw in its beak. The caption reads "IT'S OH SO QUIET." As explained in the artist's own December 16, 2019 Instagram post of the piece, this ordinary songbird is "endangered with rapidly decreasing numbers! They are suffering from habitat loss due to overpopulating cities and a lack of food due to; pesticides and herbicides being used on the crops in the countryside which feeds an over populated country... im sure that when the last bird is no longer around to be heard anymore, we can start to vote in governments that give a shit about the environment and the fragile state of its biodiversity." (@louismasai)

Photographed and posted on Instagram by @whatstreetshavetosay.

2020-11-28

Photographer: @whatstreetshavetosay (Instagram)
Artist: @louismasai (Instagram)

species extinction & biodiversity loss

See a video of the work in progress on the artist's Instagram (@louismasai).

Digital photograph