Indecline, which calls itself an “activist art collective,” was founded in 2001. The group, which targets racism and social injustices, issued a press release to local media Sunday taking credit for the graffiti. They called it “a large-scale art installation.”
According to the press release, which was issued anonymously from thisisindecline.com, artists from the group spent about six months visiting the Kennesaw shop, posing as Civil War enthusiasts. They gained the trust of Dent “Wildman” Myers, the 90-year-old owner who opened the shop in 1971.
According to Indecline, Myers gave the group the okay to redesign the pre-existing brick mural, which featured paintings of two Confederate soldiers armed with muskets surrounding the store’s logo.
Indecline released a23-sceond video that showed Myers telling someone who asked about the mural, “It’s okay, you can do anything you want to do. I’m glad to have you.” The artist, whose voice was electronically altered in the clip, quipped, “Don’t say we can do anything… We’ll put a bunch of antifa Smurfs up there.”
Myers seemed to take the comment as a joke. “Thank you very much,” he said with a light chuckle.
Indecline painted several Smurfs depicted as members of antifa. The group painted over the name of the Civil War shop, replacing the most of the logo with Indecline’s slogan “Respect Existence or Expect Resistance.”
The artists placed a cartoonish cat head over one soldier’s face. Next to it, the group hung an angry Smurf wielding a baseball bat with an anti-Nazi symbol.
The soldier on the other side of the mural also had his face covered with a cartoonish image of a Confederate troop. A Smurf raising its fist in the air was on one side urinating on the soldier’s arm while a Smurf of the other side held a Molotov cocktail.
Myers was reached at his store Monday but declined to comment on the incident over the phone.
Kennesaw police say they are investigating the incident, which occurred Saturday night.
Antifa is short for antifascist. The group, considered a broad, leaderless movement of the far left, has supported counterprotests to rallies by white supremacists, neo-Confederates and neo-Nazis around the state. It’s not known whether or how Indecline and antifa are connected.
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