SDP on tour ... bougainvillea

Art and About...Bubbleway by Rebar

"Are you planking?" asked my friend Sue, as I stretched out on these covered Swiss Balls in Bulletin Place.

"Bubbleway, a modular, inflatable social furniture system...asks us to rethink our notions of public space and discover new forms of social interactions, creativity and play in a heavily encoded cosmopolitan centre."

Whatever .... they were quite comfy!

SDP on tour . .. anyone home?

Can I come in please?

Art and About - Donut by Brook Andrew

Brook Andrew's Donut in Bridge Lane is "a large inflated PVC form donut ...transformed into a striking black and white matrix of Wiradjuri design. The shape references ancient European and Indigenous depictions of time travel and healing, and the popular contemporary notion of a 'pie in the sky."

I just like it! And the refelection in a corner of a window of the Exchange Hotel.

Andrew is of Wiradjuri and Scottish descent. The Wiradjuri people people come from Central New South Wales. I showed one of Andrew's other works, Bouncy Castle, in the Biennale of Sydney exhibition on Cockatoo Island.

SDP on tour ...colour

We are in the old town of Menton. As with yesterday's photo of the cat, the colours - the shade of yellow and the pale green attracted my eye and seem to be the signature colours of the old town of Menton.

Art and About: Untitled by Barry McGee

It's the 10th annual Sydney Art and About public art festival. One of the highlights for me is the laneway art installations.

Here in Tank Stream Way, Barry McGee has created a work which the catalogue says "teeters between the free spirit of graffiti, the randome energy of the urbane and the pure intent of controlled artistry"

I don't know if the tag shown left is part of the original work, or a graffiti tagger's addition!

The red paint strayed a way from the can! I rather like this too - implies a bit of hit and run- ness.

Melbourne has fabulous laneway art all over the city, much of it "graffiti style". Sydney is much more purse-lipped and tut-tutty about it all, but I rather think in some places it would brighten up otherwaise drab places.

McGee is a Californian, also known as Ray Fong, Lydia Fong, Bernon Vernon, P.Kin, Ray Virgil, Twist and further variations of Twist, such as Twister, Twisty, Twisto and others.

This piece caused controversy, with the narrow-minded straighteners of Sydney poo-poohing and decrying it and saying it should be erased! Grrrrrrrrr

SDP on tour ... trompe l'oeil in Old Menton

At the top of l'escalier Saint-Michel, shown yesterday, is this building with trompe l'oeil windows. Trompe-l'oeil literally means "deceive the eye".

SDP on tour ... into Old Menton

There's several ways to enter the Old Town of Menton. You can chose to climb the stairs to the Basilica of Saint-Michel, the spire of which dominates the skyline.

I plan to spend the next few days having a poke around the old town.

SDP on tour ....Paparazzi in Menton

Photographers only need apply????

Theme Day .... Mystery Object (SDP on tour)

These children in Menton certainly thought this busker was a mystery object! They were very intrigued to know where his head and face were!

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