{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Street Art Cities","provider_url":"https://streetartcities.com","title":"Sea Elephants by Flying Förtress","description":"From Germany Flying Fortress is a regular visitor to Leicester and known for his character art. His ‘Teddy Troopers’ in particular having taken on a life of their own. For Bring the Paint 2024 the style is similar but the image a little different. He has painted a group of sea elephants snarling by the side of the busy Vaughan Way. Initially planned to be 2 Flying Fortress airplanes battling each other. As he set upon the pose he realised that in many ways it started to resemble the sea elephants fighting. “So I gave my figure a new crossover twist of an airplane and a sea-elephant” he told Inspiring city. Also “the seals look a bit gawky when fighting rivals”. Wishing to play around more with his airplane character it’s also about turning the military symbolism on its head. To give it a funny twist and turn it away from it’s real life war reality.https://inspiringcity.com/2024/06/06/murals-of-the-2024-bring-the-paint-festival-in-leicester/","author_name":"Inspiring City","author_url":"https://streetartcities.com/users/c4d83141-dc19-4b74-9891-593b93d1d91f","thumbnail_url":"https://streetartcities.com/media/1/12c1b2ad-677b-4108-99c5-9b458f9196d4/1024.jpg","thumbnail_width":1024,"width":480,"height":480,"html":"","cache_age":3600}