This image is very simple, and shows a high constrast shape of a man outlined in black and white. The man appears to be wearing tall boots, and trousers. The trousers are mainly white in coloration, but the upper half of his body is darkly clothed. Around the mans face is a bandana, covering the mouth but leaving the eyes exposed. His hair is short, and he wears a black backwards baseball cap. The man's eyes are narrowed, and he rests in a wide-legged stance. The shape of his legs form a triangle with the line of the ground, and one arm is extended forward, elevated to the level of the man's eyes. His other hand is behind him, holding the only colored object in the image. The image is a bouquet of flowers, wrapped in paper and composed of many different colors. Green, purple, yellow, pink, and lavendar are all brightly accentuated in only one region of the image.

For anyone reading the above description, we would assume the image is one of a man bringing flowers somewhere -- perhaps to a woman, a first date? But when confronted with the image we realize that Banksy, through his graffiti art, has completely "defamiliarized" the familiar. The image is obviously one of violence, because we automatically realize that the flower bouquet is a subsitute for something else. Perhaps what is missing is a grenade, or a molotov cocktail. The bandana over the man's face makes it almost more characteristic that this is some sort of attack. But why the flowers? It completely juxtoposes two images together. It almost trivializes them both, the act of bringing flowers and the act of violently assaulting in protest. We see an image of a man about to hurl a bouquet of flowers at some unknown target, and immediately we can recognize that this is a parody of another image, one of violence. Now the violence is unfamiliar to us, and it is through this that we are able to really be shocked by it.