The famous British urban artist known as Banksy confirmed Tuesday that he was the author of a new work of art on the wall of a building in south-west London, just 24 hours after unveiling another of his graffiti. In a post on Instagram, the artist uploaded a photograph of his creation, which shows two elephants poking their heads out and looking at each other through two boarded-up windows of a building. building in the London district of Chelsea.

The graffiti artist, whose identity is unknownhad already revealed a new painting on Monday in Richmond, also southwest of the British capital, featuring a goat on top of a ledge from which several rocks are falling while a real surveillance camera is pointed at it.

Banksy’s modus operandi is always the same: upload a photograph to confirm that you are the author of the painting and the rest is left to the imagination of his more than twelve million followers, who speculate on whether these two creations are part of a series of “animal” art and whether more will follow in the coming hours and days.

Regarding this latest piece by the artist based in Bristol (southwest of England), some on social media suggest that it is a graphic representation of the metaphorical expression of “elephant in the room”which refers to an obvious truth that is ignored or goes unnoticed.

As for Monday’s work, the curious people who came to see it after hearing the news interpreted that Banksy, with the mountain goat on the ledge, wanted to represent that the human race is on the brink of extinction or point out the lack of privacy in public spaces by installing a closed-circuit camera.

These two works confirm Banksy’s return to his favourite canvasthe streets of London, where he had not performed since last March, when he sprayed green paint on a wall behind a pruned tree, creating the optical illusion of foliage and with a stencil of a person holding a spray can next to it. Banksy is known for raising awareness of social, political and environmental issues through his street art in various parts of the world and his works are highly sought after, reaching tens of millions of euros at auctions.