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Blu's nomadic spirit peaked in 2005. From the end of that year, Blu spent most of his time jumping from place to place in self-guided travels, linking his itineraries to the festivals to which he was invited. During that time, he collaborated with
Ericailcane and several artists from
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called upon the overdue historical and social commemoration of the place's charged history and the unknown fates of the forced labourers who built it. The commissioned piece was destroyed in autumn 2013 in the course of renovation works.
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In 2006, during one of these trips, Blu made his first digital animation from images painted directly on a wall, a technique that would be a recurrent theme of many of his future videos, such as "Muto."
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In consultation with Blu, the two murals at
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In 2007, Santa's Ghetto, a London-based art collective that organises annual happenings of painting performances and print trade fairs, invited Blu to a festival that took place in the
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