Decorated BT fibre telecom cabinets - Sine Missione - Bob Marley 1945 & Jimi Hendrix 1942,Tithebarn St, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2LZ
Read more at He is the street artist from Liverpool few people know but whose work everyone on Merseyside has seen. And if you haven't noticed it before you won't be able to stop seeing his art after you have read this. From Queens Drive to Aigburth Road, Crosby to Kirkby, the instantly-recognisable work of Sine Missione is peppered across the region. It means that at least some of the thousands of dull, often vandalised, green electrical boxes that dot most streets across Liverpool now shine with fresh paint and the faces and words of the likes of Che Guevara, Bob Marley, John Lennon and Bill Shankly. It all started with an image of Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue being introduced to Larkhill Lane in Clubmoor about five years ago. Now, after catching up with the artist some may dub the Scouse Banksy, the ECHO can shed light on the work making passers-by smile and, crucially for the man behind it, think about the world they live in. And the L13 location of his first piece and the focus on electrical boxes begin to make sense when you realise Sine Missione is an electrician from nearby Anfield - details he was happy to be revealed, so long as his name and picture were not. He told the ECHO: "I'd been looking at these green boxes for years. They are a blight on the city - they are like vandalism and I've taken it upon myself to look after them. "They are like visual vandalism, it's really hard to be happy if all you see is black, grey and brown. There's no colour anywhere and we need colour in our lives." So he bought some paint, gave an electrical box a fresh coat of paint then returned when it was dry with a sticker of Christ the Redeemer he had created. That was the birth of Sine Missione - the first of hundreds of pieces of art that have seen him hard at work in the dead of night, posing as a workman to avoid the questions of officials
Size: 5472px × 3468px
Location: Tithebarn St, Liverpool , Merseyside, England, UK, L2 2LZ
Photo credit: © Tony Smith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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