26. Follow Your Dreams – Cancelled

Discovered in the low-income Chinatown district of Boston, Follow Your Dreams is interpreted by many as the lower class man being forced to let go of his dreams as he struggles to meet his basic necessities. It is an image of a forlorn painter holding a bucket of paint and a brush, appearing to have painted the words, “Follow your dreams”, only to have it stamped “Cancelled” in red and white ink.

27. Laugh Now

Discovered in Los Angeles in 2002. Laugh  Now features a monkey wearing a sandwich board with the words, “Laugh now but one day we’ll be in charge”. There is a variety of this stencil with different accompanying words such as “Lying to the police is never wrong.”