home – street – margins, memories and markers – sites
– visual artist
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Monument on Wheels — St Kilda Site: Corner Barkly & Blessington Sts, St Kilda Artist: Simon Perry Description: A bronze ribbon of text in three parts set on shopping trolley wheel and mounted on blue stone plinths. St Kilda wouldn’t be St Kilda without the local characters that have always been part of the streetscape. They are as important as the physical qualities of the land and give the community it's unique identity. The shopping trolley wheels and the weaving text represent the pathes both psychological and physical that these people have traversed to survive on the streets. The work celebrates the resourcefulness and importance of these characters. |
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“They wandered by it’s sane seas because it was a more generous city, not as mean as the others, where the would be singled out as being queer if their lipstick were skew whiff or buttons undone, or speech slurred or hands shaky and yellow with nicotine”. |
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