STANDING AT THE top of the Eiffel Tower, almost everyone looks down. Tourists jostle(推挤；争抢) to peer at Paris’s famous landmarks and the snaking(蜿蜒的；蛇形的) Seine. Yet those in the know(知情者；内行人) gaze upwards(向上凝视): they climb to the highest public platform to view not the metropolis, but a mosaic. Up in one nook(角落；隐蔽处) is a small pixelated(像素化的) artwork made from ceramic tiles(陶瓷片), which depicts(描绘；描画) a blue creature with a cloud.
站在埃菲尔铁塔顶端，几乎所有人都向下看。游客们争相眺望巴黎的标志性建筑和蜿蜒的塞纳河。然而，知情者却向上凝视：他们爬到最高的公共平台，不是看城市，而是一幅马赛克画。在一个角落里，有一件由陶瓷片制成的小型像素化作品，描绘了一个带着云的蓝色生物。
Invader(匿名街头艺术家), the Frenchman behind the mosaic, is one of the most prolific(多产的；高产的) street artists in the world. (Yes, he is even busier than Banksy(著名街头艺术家).) He has planted(安置；放置（隐喻）) more than 1,500 works across Paris alone. There are thousands more such “invasions(入侵（带引号）)” in over 80 cities around the world, from New York to Tokyo. His pixelated pictures have been affixed(粘贴；附上) to the Hollywood sign and a ski lift(滑雪缆车) in the Swiss Alps; they lie at the bottom of the ocean near Cancún and orbit Earth(绕地球轨道运行) in the International Space Station(国际空间站) (pictured above).
Invader，这位马赛克背后的法国人，是世界上最多产的街头艺术家之一。（是的，他甚至比班克西还要忙碌。）仅巴黎一地，他就已安置了超过1500件作品。在全球80多个城市还有数千次这样的“入侵”，从纽约到东京。他的像素化图像被贴在了好莱坞标志和瑞士阿尔卑斯山的滑雪缆车上；它们躺在坎昆附近的海底，并在国际空间站绕地球轨道运行（如上图所示）。
Like any successful intruder(入侵者；闯入者), he often works under cover of darkness(在夜色掩护下). (Invader has installed(安装；安置) almost every piece himself, from Miami to Marrakech.) And, like any serious street artist, his identity is a secret. That hasn’t stopped him from gaining fans. If you know a child in a city that has been invaded, chances are(很有可能) you’ve heard of FlashInvaders(Invader的寻宝游戏应用), an app on which you score points for(因…得分) finding (or “flashing(闪光（扫描行为）)”) the mosaics. The game has more than 550,000 players, up from about 360,000 in 2024. Players have logged(记录；登录) some 47m flashes to date(至今为止).
像任何成功的入侵者一样，他常常在夜色掩护下工作。（从迈阿密到马拉喀什，几乎每一件作品都是Invader亲自安装的。）而且，和任何认真的街头艺术家一样，他的身份是个秘密。但这并没有阻止他收获粉丝。如果你认识一个生活在被“入侵”城市的儿童，很可能你听说过FlashInvaders，这是一款通过发现（或“闪光”）马赛克来积分的应用。该游戏拥有超过55万玩家，高于2024年的约36万。玩家迄今已记录了约4700万次闪光。
