This urban anti-hero has recently appeared on a boarded-up door of the former Hopetoun Inn on McDonald Road.
Bearing mysterious codes on his clothes, and with a not altogether friendly glint in his eye, he seems to represent a futuristic, outlaw-street artist (U for underground?) ready and willing to deploy the spray-can in his right hand. Perhaps this is a wall's eye view.
Paradoxically, the well-executed stencil work is pasted to the door on paper – a slightly less daring enterprise than using more traditional and long-lasting paint which consequently carries greater legal penalties for those who get caught.
Can any reader tell us more about the artist or the meanings contained within the piece?
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Update
The letters across the figure's chest are CMYK and presumably stand for: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key. A Wikipedia entry on the CMYK subtractive colour model can be read here.
No such clarity yet attends 042:114:98. It may refer to the patent number of 'a paper cutting and perforated line forming device for a printer' filed by a Japanese firm in 1979, or to the company registration number of Systematic Investments Limited, which was struck off and dissolved in June 2004. But somehow we doubt it.
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