Wandering, observing and writing in public space (formerly citytraces.net)
“I have to clean this work every week.
It takes me one and half hour. The children they play on it.
They climb up, you see these marks are made by their shoes. They hang off the legs for a photograph. The manager tells them off but they take no notice.
I clean all the artworks. I like them very much, they are the creation of human beings.”
Public art: Silence by Adrian Mauriks 2002
Looking up, looking down and looking into the distance at Docklands.
In the 1850’s the French poet Baudelaire believed that traditional art was inadequate for the new dynamic complications of modern life. Social and economic changes brought by industrialization demanded that the artist immerse himself in the metropolis and become, ‘a botanist of the sidewalk’, an analytical connoisseur of the urban fabric.
Collins Street Bridge – south side.
Railway Goods Shed number 2 sliced in half.
Collins Street Bridge – gold edged view to the north.
– Discovering the fields of gold or the source of the decorative device?
The old Crown Casino site.
I love St Kilda will be posting from the old site.
Webb Bridge – artist Robert Owen
Bolte Bridge – Docklands
Botanist of the pavement is a new project exploring Melbourne from the centre to the edges.
Docklands or badlands?
Found: under the Bolte Bridge
Overheard conversation:
They’ve been there at least a week!
Albury to Melbourne