The godfather of european street art fench artist blek le rat has been cited amongst banksys most important influences his highly politicised stencil work usually in bold monochrome is nothing short of iconic revolving around the recurring motif of the rat an important trope for blek le rat the urban rodents create fear and are synonymous with invasion just so in his latest release rat after the apocalypse which depicts a towering rat standing amid piles of debris a self