I don’t walk home the same way every day, but when I do walk one particular route, there are a couple of things on Boundary St, Paddington that make my day. Someone (? The name painted on the glass is Phil James) has liquid-nailed this artwork onto the underneath of an overpass. I love it. It sits there like it’s in someone’s living room, so incongruous, but so right.
A bit further up the road is a garage in front of a terrace house. As you approach it you can hear classical music, loud and you can’t help but peer in as you walk past. Inside the garage is a guy painting at an easel singing his lungs out completely oblivious to all. I smile the whole way home.
What art sparks your day?
POSTSCRIPT [4/6/09] : Just heard about The Soapbox Project; “an interactive multimedia and arts initiative with the goal of inspiring people to notice & share street art from around the city. You find & photograph street art, share it with our Flickr group and we’ll publicly project it back onto Sydney streets.”
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On my bus route into work (in Alexandria) there is a STOP sign that has been changed to read STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE. Spying it always brightens my morning.
Kate there was another of these portraits on Wentworth Ave, near Elizabeth St, Sydney it was an unusual portrait of Princess Di. Check it out here http://twitpic.com/61gro I had a laugh with my workmates as we walked back from lunch!
I love the ever changing canvases of Newtown in Sydney. When I take a friend’s dog to Camperdown Park I like to spot what new stencil art has sprung up on St Stephen’s sandstone wall and then hunt down my old favourites which include an interpretation of the beasts from Where the Wild Things Are and a little black and white cane toad. Another favourite has popped up in a lane way at the end of Australia St near Black Star cafe – a wonderful stencil of a female in circus style harlequin briefs, mask and hat. And then there is the ever evolving wall art in the newly opened Hive Bar in Erskinville opposite the Rose of Australia. Community Art is alive and well in Newtown and may it always remain!
I found some more phil james – check it out:
http://photoaday.com.au/photoaday/tag/phil-james/