Penang Street Art - Boy on Motorbike by Ernest Zacharevic
Painted boy in an oversized helmet leaning on a real parked motorbike against a weathered wooden door.
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This guide to the Boy on Motorbike mural in George Town follows an ordinary afternoon in 2012 when eleven-year-old Mohammad Shahrul, fiddling with a yo-yo outside his house on Ah Quee Street, was asked by a visiting Lithuanian artist to climb onto a parked motorbike for a photograph. It traces how that photo became one of Asia's most photographed street art pieces, and how Shahrul grew up to pedal tourists past the wall where he once posed. Stand back from the door on Ah Quee Street to line up the painted torso with the real parked bike.
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