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pffft the proper way. Banksy is all about irreverence - his value is directly connected to that. That would just be...ridiculous.
I also think it's a shame and I'd love to have his work on my building. Far better than the crappy pseudo-graffiti that usually shows up in most places.
If you check on Banksy's site, there is a next button on the main page. There, you can see how several of his works have been covered over in the UK, for a variety of reasons. In some cases it's councils and the people who don't want them there. In others, it's other graffiti artists who come along and deface his work.
This is, in a sense, the essence of his work. It is an ephemeral kind of art, that reflects the ephemerity of almost everything in our lives these days. Material things, relationships. Disposable society. Nothing has value and nothing is worth preserving.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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