I took this photograph six years ago during a visit of Geneva. I stumbled into it in my photo archives recently and, because I like it very much, decided to post it here. Don’t overlock the fisherman!
I assume, we are looking here at something called ‘stencil art’, formally a subcategory of ‘street art’. And here is what vocabulary.com has to say about it: “A stencil is a stiff sheet of material with a design or image cut out of it. When you apply ink or (spray) paint to the stencil, the design is printed on the surface below.”
Stencil art is one of human’s oldest creative art forms. Some of the first human artists used stencil art techniques when they placed their hands on cave walls and blew ground minerals over them, coating the rock in blooms of red or black pigment and leaving behind their ghostly palmprints.