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This must-watch video features powerful and creative graphic that an anonymous art collective projects onto the walls city buildings in LA and beyond. Upgrade your subscription to watch now!

FEATURING "KENNY" - An anonymous artists collective in Los Angeles has recently been plastering buildings across the city with powerful graphics that send a strong political message. Except that the images leave no trace, for they are graphic projections of imagery and video. 

VjayBombs, as the collective is named, mocks billionaires, politicians, police and especially ICE agents. One of its members going by the name "Kenny," spoke with Sonali Kolhatkar about the art and what's behind it.

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Sonali Kolhatkar: Joining me now is Kenny, one of VjayBombs’ members. To protect his identity, we're obscuring his video feed for our TV audience. Welcome to the program, Kenny. 

Kenny: Hi. How you doing? 

Kolhatkar: Doing well. Thank you so much for joining us. It is really interesting to see some of these visuals on buildings. I confess I haven't seen them in person, but I've been seeing them online on your Instagram feed and if folks have been showing up to protests in LA, especially in the evenings, they might have seen some of your art. Describe for people who are unfamiliar, people who are outside LA what your art looks like. 

Kenny: Yeah, so we go out with a large venue projector and we do a little pop-up art show. Most of our work is kind of in the style of like a stencil. It's very basic animation. Sometimes there's words depending on what we're trying to say. 

And we try to project it as big as possible in a lot of different places, sometimes in places with a lot of foot traffic and then sometimes just for ourselves. 

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