A previously unknown Banksy plant was apparently destroyed before it was perceived as such. The mysterious British street artist posted several pictures on his Instagram account on Wednesday showing one of his works on the façade of a dilapidated house. You can see the outline of a boy who seems to be standing at a window and pushing aside a curtain of corrugated iron. It is titled "Morning Has Broken".
Next to him is the silhouette of a cat. But one of the pictures also shows that the façade is no longer there. Next to the rubble are an excavator, a container and a man with a safety vest and construction worker's helmet.
According to the British news agency PA, the building is an old farmhouse in the village of Herne Bay in the English county of Kent. The local news site "KentOnline" reported, citing a demolition company, that work on the 16th-century building had only begun on Tuesday. Accordingly, neither the workers nor the owner had any idea that it was a Banksy plant. "Realizing it was a Banksy makes me sick," the site quoted one of the men as saying.