Who Did This? (9 Photos)

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Experimental cover with Banksy’s boy opening corrugated-metal curtains beside smaller panels of Jinks Kunst’s E.T.-faced bench and Alberto León’s wall-crack climbers.

Nine double takes and the artists behind them

None of these came with a sign explaining itself. In Gdynia, a kid seems to dangle from an underpass ceiling; in Orvault, a park bench stares back with E.T.’s eyes. Below, each one gets its answer: who made it and where.

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Banksy’s Morning is Broken in Herne Bay, Kent: a black painted boy with a cat at his side pulls apart two corrugated-metal sheets fixed over a window like curtains on a white-painted brick farmhouse

🌅 “Morning is Broken” — By Banksy in Herne Bay, England 🇬🇧

A boy, with a cat at his side, pulls the corrugated-metal sheets over a farmhouse window apart like bedroom curtains. On a boarded-up house, it reads as the first morning in years.

💡 Nerd Fact: Banksy confirmed the work on Instagram on March 15, 2023, but demolition of the derelict house at Blacksole Farm had begun the day before. The contractors said they had not known it was a Banksy.

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Small monochrome stencil rabbit by Adeline Yvetot peeking around a rough wall corner in Belleville, Paris, France

🐇 Peek-a-Boo Rabbit — By Adeline Yvetot in Belleville, Paris, France 🇫🇷

A small gray rabbit peeks around a rough wall corner, easy to miss at walking speed. In an artist feature for M.U.R de Rennes, Yvetot describes her rabbit as an invitation to curiosity, travel and discovery.

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Cornelia Konrads’ Schleudersitz in Neustadt an der Donau, Germany: a wooden park bench held by a red strap stretched between the arms of a giant slingshot made from a forked tree trunk, on a grassy slope

🎯 “Schleudersitz” — By Cornelia Konrads in Neustadt an der Donau, Germany 🇩🇪

A park bench hangs in a red strap pulled back across a forked tree trunk, ready to be fired. The title is German for “ejection seat”; Konrads dates the work to 2010.

💡 Nerd Fact: Sculpture Network lists it under Flying Objects, an art exhibition on a former vineyard in Neustadt an der Donau that is now a leisure park overlooking the Danube valley. So the bench is aimed at the view.

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Crashing Tennis Ball mural by Jan Is De Man at Zuilense Tennis Club in Utrecht, Netherlands: a giant yellow tennis ball appears to smash through a red brick wall, with painted bricks flying outward

🎾 Crashing Tennis Ball — By Jan Is De Man in Utrecht, Netherlands 🇳🇱

A giant tennis ball bursts through the brick wall of the clubhouse at Zuilense Tennis Club, Burgemeester Norbruislaan 680 in Utrecht, with painted bricks flying out around it. Someone clearly hit that one too hard.

💡 Nerd Fact: Zuilense Tennis Club was founded on May 16, 1925. The club says the mural was unveiled at its centenary celebration in July 2025, the same day it received a royal medal of honor.

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Black-and-white paste-up by Alberto León in Barcelona: four figures, the lowest a child, climb up through a jagged crack in a sandy-colored wall, with rubble at its foot, as a passer-by in a black cap walks past

🧱 “GRIETA” — By Alberto León in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

Four figures climb up through a jagged crack in a plain wall, one above the other, while a man in a black cap walks by. “Grieta” is Spanish for “crack.”

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Mural by Marek LOONEY Rybowski in a Gdynia underpass: a painted boy in a blue cap, orange shirt and red sneakers hangs from the real concrete edge of the ceiling, with a butterfly painted nearby

🧗 A Child on the Ledge — By Marek LOONEY Rybowski in Gdynia, Poland 🇵🇱

A painted boy grips the real concrete edge of an underpass and hangs there in red sneakers while a butterfly drifts past. It is one section of a longer mural that runs through the pedestrian underpass beneath the bypass, linking the Demptowo and Pustki Cisowskie districts of Gdynia.

💡 Nerd Fact: The City of Gdynia says residents chose the mural in the participatory budget, with more than 2,700 votes; the same project also paid for a public defibrillator and an outdoor gym.

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Berry Workers by Oakoak in Avignon, France: tiny painted workers climb the bare branches of a vine on a pale wall and carry its real dark berries

🍇 Berry Workers — By Oakoak in Avignon, France 🇫🇷

Tiny painted workers climb a bare vine on a pale wall and haul its real berries like heavy cargo. The fruit was already there; Oakoak only added the crew, the same trick that runs through his own street-art archive.

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A park bench in Orvault, France, painted by Jinks Kunst so its wooden backrest becomes E.T.’s face, with two large glossy eyes and a small nose above the concrete seat

👽 E.T. on the Bench — By Jinks Kunst in Orvault, France 🇫🇷

Two big glossy eyes and a small nose turn the wooden backrest into E.T., peering at whoever sits down. In his post about it, Jinks Kunst calls it part of a series of benches painted at Château de la Gobinière in Orvault.

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A blue pedestrian-crossing sign in Lund, Sweden, altered by Pabi A: a black figure climbs out over the top edge of the sign, leaving only the crossing stripes in the white triangle

🚸 Crossing the Crossing Sign — By Pabi A in Lund, Sweden 🇸🇪

The pedestrian has had enough of his triangle and is climbing out over the top of the sign. Design Observer used this Lund piece in an essay on art made from overlooked parts of the city.

💡 Sign Fact: Sweden’s crossing-sign figure is nicknamed Herr Gårman, “Mr. Walkman,” and has been on Swedish crossings since 1955.

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