?GIVE A WALL ST. BANKER ENOUGH ROPE AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF. {Mural By ABOVE} !NEW!

In October at the height of the global Occupy Wall Street protest, Zawacki flew to Miami and painted a 120 foot (37 m) long wordplay mural that read "Give A Wall St. Banker Enough Rope And He Will Hang Himself." Zawacki's mural incorporated a hanging effigy of a suited banker to the installation. When NBC News did a news report on Tavar's "Wall St." piece, he told the reporter, "You don't have to read it, you just get it immediately when you see it. It's extremely aggressive and that's actually the point." His final reply was, "Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, and some people will praise it, others will deny it and criticize it, but the point being is that it's getting people talking about the movement."[22]

“GIVE A WALL ST. BANKER ENOUGH ROPE AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF.” {Mural by ABOVE}

In 2007 Above's artworks expanded from his smaller word play's he was using on his wooden arrow mobiles during his then sign language tour into larger painted wordplays. During Above's sign language tour he was working specifically with smaller words in conjunction with each other. Above said that after his sign language tour the previous year he wanted to keep making word play statements but with more elaborated words and in a sentence form. He continued to say in the interview that he wanted to return to painting letters as he used to when he was younger doing traditional graffiti but instead of painting his name he said he wanted to paint word plays that were site specific and the viewer could easily read and connect with. Above, like many of his past self financed tours was preparing his tour and to travel a long distance for upwards of 5 months long. "I returned to California from Europe in November of 2006 from the sign language tour. I had already known at that point that I still was very interested in using witty and site specific word plays as the body of my work. I just wanted to make them longer with 4-9 words painted in somewhat of a punchline format." Above prepared for his soon self titled "south central tour" in South and Central America's. Above worked in a restaurant in Alaska as a waiter for 4-months in 2007 to save enough money for his future 5-month long south central tour. Above invited Rodrigo Lopez and fellow artist "Ripo" to join him along the south central tour. While the 2 artists were making their own artworks along this tour Mr Lopez was to focus on the blog and documentation of the journey. Travel documenter Rodrigo Lopez said that Above, Ripo, and himself were to begin their travels in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and move down and over to Argentina, followed by Chile and navigate the groups way up through South and Central America ending 5-months later in Mexico City. A total of 18 countries are planned for this trip. No one is quite sure what will happen but we will certainly be able to read it on the walls of the cities and the pages of this blog."South central tour" Although Above did not attain the original goal of 18 countries along his southcentral tour, he was able to travel and paint in 13 countries within a 5000+ mile distance from start to finish.

In October at the height of the global Occupy Wall Street protest Above flew to Miami, U.S.A. and did a city block long word play that read 'Give a wall St. Banker enough rope and he will hang himself." In addition Above added a hanging effigy installation which shocked and gained a lot of attention from drivers on the I-95 interstate freeway in Miami. Above's is known for his social, and politically charged messages and this wall street piece he made had gained the attention of national and international news for it's controversial message and even more importantly the hanging wall street banker mannequin he hung up from a noose. While being interviewed by London daily mail he said 'I tried to clothe him and dress him up as if he was what I imagined a Wall Street banker might wear, it was the cherry on the top of the word play installation. He continued to say 'It's extremely shocking which is part of the point as well. I think it is really gone too far, but then again I think it's my retaliation to how far Wall St, has gotten in general. It is shocking to me when I look at these numbers when I see that one per cent of the people have all of the money. Above explained that he was inspired by the proverb 'If you give a fool enough rope, he will hang himself' and simply adapted it to fit the theme. Republican news channel FOX NEWS covered the piece and called the piece "this is not art, this is sick." When NBC news did a news report on Above's wall st. piece he told them 'You don't have to read it, you can just get it immediately when you see it. It's extremely aggressive and that's actually the point.' Above's final reply was 'Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, and some people will praise it, others will deny it and criticize it and shoot it down, but the point being is that it's getting people talking about the movement." Above published a video online of the start to finish process of the painting and installation of the hanging effigy "Give a wall street banker" video 350c69d7ab