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High art in Leeds
Bruntwood's Platform building, which towers over the city's railway station, is now home to the UK's tallest piece of street art. Named "Athena Rising", the piece by internationally-acclaimed muralist pair Cbloxx and AYLO, aka Nomad Clan, features a pair of giant owls in flight (apparently signifying "intelligence, knowledge, wealth, learning and tradition") together with the moon ("enlightenment") and a gold crown (which in street art symbolises "being the master of your craft, or having paid your dues"). It's almost 47m high, roughly the same height as the Statue of Liberty, and took about 600 cans of spray paint to complete. Cbloxx and AYLO spent two weeks working eight hours a day, harnessed in a cradle far offthe ground and facing all the heat, wind and rain a Leeds summer could throw at them. Sounds like a hoot.
A starring role
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