Cranio and Phlegm Collaboration in Dalston - War

London's street art scene has been busy this year to catch up with the slow previous couple of years, and I was happy to see Cranio and Phelgm, two street artists that I have been following for some time, return to the city. Cranio had an exhibition going on at BSMT Space in Dalston recently, so he's been busy creating a lot of murals around various parts of London. When he comes to town, he usually does at least one collaboration, and the collaborations are always fun to see. This collaboration is between him and Phlegm and features their unique characters in the middle of a battle or war.

Phlegm is a street artist from Sheffield, and this is his latest London wall. The last time that I saw any work from him in London was in 2019. I started to see his work around the city in 2013. His work is fantasy-based with monochrome characters with long legs and patterned clothing. His work is an illustrative style.

Cranio is a street artist from Brazil, and his subject is blue native characters that are often getting up to mischief. His work sometimes depicts social, environmental, economical, and political meanings.

The mural is located in Dalton, about a block from the BSMT Space gallery where Cranio is currently exhibiting. The wall is a long one, and it is split into both styles. It appears to be a war between the blue natives from Cranio and Phlegm's monochrome long-legged humanoids. Cranio's blue natives are seen with a golden god-like figure in a jungle setting with money bags.

In the midde of the wall, Cranio's blue natives and a money-like character are leaping with primative weapons (an axe and spear) into the superior humanoid's flame-throwing crossfire created by Phlegm. Arrows fly through the air with explosions and burning jungle in the background.

The host of weaponry at the humanoids' defense is vast and complex - mechanical.

Near the end of Phlegm's contribution to the wall, some of the humanoids are carrying a cage with two of Cranio's captured blue natives. This section of the wall has a hook on it where a cage or cart is secured for the shop. It appears that this has been worked into the artwork, even though it does obscure it. (I tried to move the cart to get a better photograph, but it is secured there.)