Another DOLK work gone

the original Dolk Stencil

A classical Dolk stencil in the streets of Bergen is gone. The drummer boy marching towards a landmine refers to the traditional children brigades in Bergen marching in the streets of Bergen every spring. Loved by many, but also hated because of the noise they make in the streets on weekend mornings.

The stencil, made illegaly, have stayed for years but recently the owner of the building started to cut the piece out of the wall. The owner claims that the reason was to preserve the work, and everybody else thought it was done for economical reasons.

Vandalized and gone!

However, somebody wanted otherwise and destroyed the work with white paint before the the house owner finnished the extraction. A sad, but understandable action. An action against privatization of street art and economical motives for street art theft. Thats the second Dolk piece that disappears from the streets of Bergen lately. See my earlier post on street art theft.