"History will be kind to us, because we will write it"
I was walking through Garema Place today and, unsurprisingly, I saw something a bit odd. There was a man just casually wrapping some cling film around two poles outside of Impact Comics. I’ve seen quite a few strange things at Garema and I decided to stick this one out, to see if he was going to just leave it there or what.
He pulled out a can a spray paint and started to graffiti onto his strange canvas. I was standing behind it at this stage and so I walked behind him. It was a bit hard to see what he was trying to do at first but I eventually got the gist of it. It was a nice swirly pattern. But when I thought the art had reached its natural end, he kept going.
He put away his spray can and pulled out some permanent markers, continuing with the pattern and transforming the picture into something more recognisable; an eye. He embellished around the eye and the gaps that he had left around the main shape. He continued the embellishing in the black spaces but with a silver marker. He signed it as “Walrus”.
I haven’t seen much of this sort of art around town and I would especially like to see some more ANU art student’s work up around the place.
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Certainly more pleasing and interesting than the official art pieces they’ve shoved around the place.
That said, some bogan from (insert your favourite bogan suburb) will probably trash it before the week is out.
Duffbowl said :
Dunno about pleasing as it’s not really my style, but good on him for brightening the place up without defacing things. Top idea. And I doubt the artist would be too upset by it being trashed – cling film isn’t the most permanent substrate.
Was he an eggman?
Eye am the Walrus?
Unlike the Sisterhood rep who left a bit of knitted graffiti to collapse and moulder on the lightpole it had “decorated” in Lyneham a couple of years ago(eventually cleaned up by Urban Services), I hope the artist will come back and chuck it all in a bin once it has made its point & been appreciated!
I was watching him do a similar drawing just outsde the Canberra Centre near the fountain as well. Nice tags and I like the fact it isn’t graffitti and easily removed.
Like the OP I like this idea and hope he sticks around and does other work like this.
There is another one on Allsop St on the other side of the road from the Citywest Car park entrance. Similar style; looks good
I-filed said :
Brings to mind Mully’s little (but boguetastic) shrine on Cbr Ave … wonder how long Urban Services will let that moulder for?
btw, nice job Walrus.
Big fan of street art but this…… not so much.
“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared
to learn to draw?”
? Banksy