The stencil was ready: site specific, object specific, and text specific. J had been house bound for 2 day because her son wasn’t well enough to go to school. She’d just picked up her 86 year old mother from Spencer St Station. “I’ve got to go out for a minute, get some cough medicine for L. ”
She jumped on her bike pedalled like fury to the first abandoned arm chair. Gone, the Council must have taken it to the dump. Lucky there is another one around the corner she thought.
Up Acland street she pedalled, phoning her spotter as she went – “it was there this morning” said the voice. J looked at the place where the armchair had been and there was the word.
Relic or rev-head retro.
Found: Foster Ave St Kilda
Found: Foster Ave
Found: St Kilda beat
J had just finished taking a photo of the mattress when a guy pulled up in the car.
He had a quizzical look on his face so she decided to ask him, “what do you think it means?”
He replied “I’ve been trying to work that out”. And then added, “yesterday it just said ‘you never think it will happen to you’ and then today somebody else has added ‘Then one day it does'”.
“I reckon it’s a couple splitting up and they have both written different things.”
And then he added, “I’m going to take a photo too”.
Found: St Kilda Beach
or lifestyle choice?
Found: Peanut Farm Reserve
No Standing
Found: next to Balaclava Station
Found: Foster St
Found: Elwood Beach
and a few weeks later…
The futon-trolley connection. As seen in Neighbourhood character #6, and in my neighbourhood – Carnegie. The futon disappeared and the trolley stayed… who knows why.
by Marcia
