This stencil is on Elizabeth street near LaTrobe street . It was taken on the morning of 26/11/8. The stencil is approximately 8 feet tall.
On the right arm of the left skeleton (in pink text) is the artists tag: VEXCA
The day displayed a prelude to summer; the greeting of decay as it rose up off the floor of the laneways reminded him that the olfactory receptors still worked inside his brain. As he walked the bustle of strangers hurtling forwards in the unmistakable path of, "move or be crushed", failed to dislodge him from his path. Pfft, what are they but automatons, reflecting that which is broadcast to them, unawares of the powers surrounding them, ready to be harnessed, once remembered, but now somehow forgotten. Alas the hive and the dissolution of individuality, the consensus, the norm...
There are those who, inspite of the norm, manage to reflect that which s truer and purer in form and that form is the street, and the canvas that it provides to the bearer of the message.
The modulator-demodulator (baudman) and I went on an adventure today.
We experimented with the fisheye and manual settings -- what a grand way to spend lunch on a Friday in Beautiful Downtown Melbourne (AU)!
...we even found a Banksy!
Oh, and the Schezuan chicken hit the spot as well ;) Melbourne has the best food.
*Celebrating Melbourne street art*
Background
"Few would dispute Melbourne's standing as an international
hotspot for street art. Along with cities such as New York, London
and Barcelona, it's a place where the form flourishes and the
results are celebrated.
The world's most famous graffiti artist, Britain's Banksy, calls
Melbourne's street art "... arguably Australia's most significant
contribution to the arts since they stole all the Aborigines'
pencils"."
[source: Sydney Morning Herald]
Let us spray ... a print of the stencil art Untitled, by Psalm,was bought by the National Gallery of Australia [pictured below]:
Celebrate
The wonderful world that is Melbourne's street art scene. These
captures were taken today, Friday 26 September 2008. They were taken in
and around Hosier Lane.
- Finlay alley photo set on Flickr
- Newport graffiti photo set on Flickr
- Union street blog post here on Vox.
Here are some street art images taken in Union st Melbourne (AU). Union street is a city sponsored area for artists to spray away, legally.
