Here are two shots of some glorious street art from Melbourne. This paste up was captured by a terrific Melbourne photographer over at Flickr who goes by the handle of H.E.L.E.N.
Please surf on over and check out her work. And while your there also have a look at the work of one of Fabulist Savannah's favourite sons, denessentialism. I'm told this work "Imaginary City" is by an artist who goes by the name of Miso. Miso if you ever see this post we'd love it if you'd please drop us a line or post a comment.
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Looking at the second shot first. Look at how the white brick stone of the wall lends the ramshackle house its place. A solid old place, somewhere like a Footrot Flats comic and an old homestead that pulls me to the foreground, to the cardboard box box and the paved blue stone and drain that is so familiar.
The house's ramshackle emboldens the ramshackle of our suburban street.
http://www.cityofreubens.com/
Miso - Biography
Miso has been working as a street artist for 5 years, combining fine art approaches to
wheatpasted and painted works on the streets. Her works serve as documentation of things that
would otherwise be forgotten, both in subject matter and in that her work is itself temporary, as it
becomes weather-beaten and decayed on the streets. Miso has exhibited her drawn works worldwide, on the streets and in galleries, and currently lives in Melbourne, where she works with the Mitten Fortress artist collective.
A spired dome. At the dome's top, a globe of light like an elegant light house, and perhaps a crucifix above this.
A grated arched door at an angle and off to the right. A portcullis, gated up and covered in bric-a-brac for sure.
Behind the house there are smoke stacks or narrow chimneys off behind the house itself, in painted brick.
There is also a figure, an interloper
A warrior coming back from battle, with shield upon shoulder, resting and all but dejected. Or perhaps an angel robed like a Greek and with wings free and tucked in, walking pensively, not looking at the house but down and to the left, and listening. There is a distinct line down the figure's frame. A sash or the strap of a shield. It is ephemeral.
By the figure's size, it is in the foreground. In the foreground but indistinct compared with the textures of the house.
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