I love St Kilda is moving to Writing in public space. The new site will continue to reflect the nature of gentification and homogenisation in a globalised world. All new posts about St Kilda will appear in the ilovestkilda category of the new blog.
This site will stay here but no more work will be posted. So if you are a new visitor take a tour around the backblog, explore this chronicle through the categories (at left) or you can read from the beginning. Navigating through the site in this way will present a different view of the street life in a place called St Kilda.
Stories and text on abandoned furniture are listed under discarded and for other street work go to postings.
“What are you doing that for?” he said.
“To prompt a different way of thinking about stuff in the street .”
He paused for a second, then said “you know in the 30s there was this fellow who used to write the word Eternity in chalk on the pavement. He did it for years all over Sydney, the same word over and over again.”
“That’s one of the ideas behind this work” J said enthusiastically.
“I could find better things to do with my time” he answered. “But it was nice talking to you” he said as he walked away.