Monday Mural - Botanicals

WISHING YOU ALL A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks, Sami.

When we attended an open-air jazz at the Wireless Hill Reserve, in the suburb of Ardross, in mid November,  I found a new mural.

Painted by Joanna Brown, a West Australian illustrator with a love of all things botanical, on the walls of the public toilets.

Front of the building

Entrance to ladies block

Entrance to the men's block

Monday Mural - The Boxing Croc

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks, Sami.

The last mural of the year 2021 was painted for the Darwin Street Art Festival 2020 by Franck Gohier, a Darwin based artist, and it can be found at Shadforth Lane in the Central business district.

In the artists words, this mural represents:  "The ‘Boxing Croc’ image represents a time in the late 80’s when my best mate’s mum owned a small take away shop at Humpty Doo. We would go and help out sometimes and imagine that the Boxing Croc was our own Territory version of Godzilla. In Japanese culture Godzilla was a metaphor for the USA and the fears of nuclear devastation brought on by the events at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also at that time American B-52 bombers were landing in Darwin for military exercises with undisclosed payloads to the dismay of many locals". 

Wishing all my friends and readers a wonderful 2022.

Monday Murals - Build up - Melt down

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks, Sami.

Painted for the 2018 Darwin Street Art Festival, by Vincent Poke, AKA Pokatronic,  at the Darwin Plaza in West Lane, Darwin.

This Darwin based artist is influenced by pop, Japanese and graphic styles, and the mural is an interpretation of what it's like to live through and deal with the "build up" - in the Territory weather cycle, where the heat and humidity build up leading up to the wet season.

The build up is a famous part of Territory weather cycle where the heat and 

To all my readers, followers, friends and family, I wish you a wonderful and peaceful Christmas, hopefully surrounded by family and friends.

Signs - To err is human

For other signs from around the world please check Tom's blog:

Some more signs seen at the Edith Falls Cafe, where we stopped on the way to Katherine in the Northern Territory.  

I found the first sign hilarious ... which one do you like best?

Monday Murals - Gouldian Finch

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks, Sami.

Painted for the 2017 Darwin Street Art Festival, by Melbourne artist James Beattie, AKA "Jimmy Dvate" and Darwin artist Jesse Bell, at 17 West Lane in the Darwin's city centre.

The gouldian finch mural shows the three colour variations of the birds found in the wild - the black-faced which makes up about 75% of the birds, the red-faced, makes up about 25% and the very rare yellow-faced, which only occurs in around 1 in 3000 birds.

This mural brings attention to the fact that nowadays fewer than 2500 gouldian finch are left in the wild, threatened by changing fire practices that reduce food availability and also the thousands of birds that used to be trapped for the aviary trade until 1981. These birds can be found just south of Darwin.