The graffiti showing a black leopard with a silence sign on a wall near Sukhumvit soi 58 was erased soon after it went on display. A swift and convenient end to the "trouble'' for whoever had it whitewashed? You have your spray paints, I have mine. You can create street art, I can kill it.
It certainly does not work that way. The reality is the same image has popped up everywhere on social media after the original work was covered up.
The street artist Headache Stencil, who created the graffiti, gave away the soft copy for people to use after the original work was removed. He also made T-shirts bearing the image for sale with some of the profits going to wildlife conservation organisations.
