Street Artist O'Bas Calls Out Massachusetts Gov Baker's Coronavirus Lockdown Overreach

The street artist known as O'Bas is no fan of Gov. Charles Baker’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and has plastered the Boson area with posters depicting the Democrat governor as a character out of American Psycho.

 (One poster shows Gov.Baker as the Christian Bale character from the 2000 movie American Psycho, renamed “Massachusetts Psycho.”)

Another poster on Gallivanting Boulevard near the Infiniti Theatre depicts Baker as a plastic-surgery enhanced monster named “Baked Masshole” inspired by the horror movie Saw.

“They want us to all wear masks,” O'Bas told the Boson Phoeniz. “How fitting, because they wear them all the time.”


O'Bas' latest street art includes freedom-themed works, including a skateboarding sign near North Wollaston Beach with the words “Come and Take It.” The skate park  saw 37 tons of sand dumped in it last month by local authorities to stop skaters from using the space.



The reference to 'come and take it' alludes to the 300 Spartans facing the invasion by a Persian King and his invasion from Middle East into Greece.  When the King of Kings Darius demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms the Greeks responded "Molon Labe."  Which translates as "Come and take them."




Another poster mocks social distancing snitchers with a scene from the 1978 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, retitled Invasion of the Snitchers and featuring actor Donald Sutherland wearing a mask.

 Police have assigned a six person squad of detectives to track down the elusive O'Bas and charge him with a number of code violations for putting his work on city property and private property.

Street artist (sic) Shepard Fairey once plastered stickers all over Eastern Massachusetts and failed to show up in court when ticketed and summoned.  Fairey graduated from college and left the state.  When Shepard Fairey returned to Massachusetts to present an art show when he became more established he was arrested by a detective who had been pursuing him.

Boson police how to have a similar break in catching the wiley Mr. O'Bas.

"Why can't he put his work on canvas, or paper, or his own building?"  asked Sgt. Philip Johnson.  "Does he get some kind of kick out of risking arrest?"    



See Also 

https://web.archive.org/web/20200516012443/https://bosonmassachusetts.blogspot.com/2020/05/street-artist-obas-calls-out.html 

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