Falkholt told the Guardian her work was often about “not feeling ashamed of your body and who you are as a sexual being”. A laundry owner in the mainly Chinese neighbourhood, who declined to offer his name, said the image had made residents uncomfortable. Avery Plewis, who was visiting from Toronto, wondered if the painting constituted a kind of visual sexual harassment. “It’s weird, because it’s so phallic that it’s beyond sexual harassment,” she said. Some noted the neighborhood’s long association with street art and graffiti, including work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Richard Hambleton.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2017 22:15 UTC