Banksy's latest creation imagines Steve Jobs as Syrian refugee

Anonymous British street artist Banksy has made a statement about the Syrian refugee crisis through a new body of art. The artist has placed immigration-themed murals in public spaces around a refugee camp near Calais, France.

The most noted piece features Apple's co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs depicted as a Syrian refugee. Job's biological father immigrated to the United States from Syria. The piece is titled "the son of a migrant from Syria" and can be viewed on Banksy's website.

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"We're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country's resources, but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world's most profitable company, it pays over $7 billion a year in taxes — and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs," Banksy said in statement provided by a spokeswoman to the New York Times.

The other three pieces share a similar theme to "the son of a migrant from Syria." One painting shows a child with a telescope that has a vulture on top of it. The artist wrote "maybe this whole situation will just sort itself out" on a wall in the refugee camp. In the city of Calais he recreated Théodore Géricault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa," showing immigrants on a raft reaching out to a passing ship.

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