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| Mural on Carnalea?? Gardens... community centre??? |
Today i dropped Peter off at a friend's house and i saw this astonishing mural. Belfast is like that. You think you sort of know it and then you turn the corner and there is this astonishing thing that befalls you. Like this mural. I think it is enhanced by the graffitti which brings it some kind of aliveness. Like some sort of hope. But if you think this photo is great, you should see the thing itself.
The thing about murals is that often they are distorted. Any mural you see. The faces are sort of not right, there is foreshortening, the perspective is off, and you accept that - it's part of the grammer, the convention of street art. But this one was pristine. It might even be the best mural i've ever seen. See if i had doen it, i'd be back everyday to stand in front of it and gaze in wonder.
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| Assume this is the handle of the graffiittist... |
Before there was Banksy there was Basquiant. I saw an exhibition of his at the Serpentine about 20 years ago, yes that is how old i am. Before i did that, i used to think that street art was very nice, but honestly, let's not make a big deal about it. Then one day, while wandering around in a white wine induced haze around Hyde Park on this GLORIOUS summer's day, i stumbled upon the exhibition. I remember just thinking not how raw it was, but how honest. OK, another pretentious arty word, but it was honest. It was i am not even going to go into what it was like, but i remember when i left the exhibition, i thought, we can never assume anything about anything. It was a bit like watching Waiting for Godot.
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| There was another piece of Graffitti next to that |
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| So from the public to the domestic |
As i was cooking today, i thought, as the December light fell on the things in the kitchen, that that was quite nice. My mother is most amused at the salt cellar. SALT IN A METAL CONTAINER!!!! This will rust!!! She said in Malay. No it won't because it is dry enough. Everything here was either obtained at a sale or bought at the second hand store. Some of the prices were extortiante before they were saled. Like the flour bins below. I think there were going for £60, and after drooling after them in Avoca for the longest time, they went on sale for £15. How does anyone justify that like of discount? Everything i've bought from Avoca i've bought in a sale. Which includes the salt cellar and egg timer.
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| Jellied chicken leftover |
Oisin's favourite thing right now is to tell me that sausages come from the pig's butt. Yes, i know Oisin, we use every part of the animal to honour it's sacricfie. How annoying is it to have me as mother? So here are the jellied bits of chicken from last night's dinner. That goes inot the pasta sauce to make a rich stock. And Oisin (who is almost vegetarian) tells me that is the best pasta sauce ever... errr. but how did those chicken pieces get in there? Keep wondering my son.
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