Artist Keit Bonnici held an artistic demonstration on Thursday evening after he set up a ladder by the green wall at the four-lane Marsa-Ħamrun bypass and had a "vertical picnic."
Bonnici posted the snapshots of his so-called "Sunset Picnic" on his Instagram page.
In his post, he wrote that "I wanted to have a picnic but I couldn't find a horizontal green. I found a vertical green, so I made a vertical picnic."
Bonnici was seated on an extended ladder step that was perched up against this green wall for hundreds of moving cars passing by him to see. Dressed for the occasion, Bonnici fashioned a typical red and white chequered picnic garment while enjoying his "vertical picnic" on his wooden ladder.
"'Sunset Picnic' reimagines what being nature could look like," Bonnici stated. "The work displaces the quintessentially horizontal social practice of picnicking onto vertical architectural planes."
Bonnici is no stranger to using art as a means to stir public debate on thought-provoking discussions. In September last year, Bonnici accused the Malta Biennale President, Mario Cutajar, of censorship after his artwork - a bubble-wrapped British telephone booth in Republic Square, Valletta with a "return to sender" stuck on - was moved to an unknown location during Malta Biennale 2024 until the artistic event finished, without being communicated to Bonnici.
In May 2023, Bonnici had walked barefoot across the barriers situated outside the Parliament of Malta.