MEEK is an Australian street artist who created this stencil graffiti that has a double entendre with a short sentence that says "Keep your coins I want change." Whenever you encounter a homeless person, they usually ask for the opposite. This graffiti makes you think of the issues of this world that are usually ignored, in this case, homelessness. Homelessness increases as foreclosure increases and the number of jobs decrease.
The image has been reproduced many times for use in anti-homelessness campaigns in Australia, the United States, and the UK. For example, the Human Rights Resource Center in Australia used this image on t-shirts which were part of an initiative to reform government policies regarding the homeless.
http://nga.gov.au/exhibition/SPACEINVADERS/Default.cfm?IRN=162193&BioArtistIRN=33679&MnuID=4&GALID=33679&viewID=3&DTLVIEW=TRUE
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