Potential sites for appropriation

Blenheim




City centre










Woodhouse








What I like about these locations are how broken and forgotten they are. I've been passing all these sites every so often in the last few years, and they never change. That billboard in Woodhouse must not have been changed in years. The space at the Merrion Centre is surreal: an abandoned outdoor escalator connecting the street and an entirely useless area down below, its whitewashed wall an unintended visual metaphor for this disused space. As Buff Monster says in the interview I blogged earlier, "if you think about parts of the city that are really dull, shitty, gray places, then street art becomes this amazing burst of color, suddenly changing the environment". In the full text of the interview he talks about boarded-up buildings such as a lot of these are, to me they say something about our society of waste and neglect, and something about this city, which lavishes millions on city-center development but leaves its people behind living in run-down, forgotten neighbourhoods.

The last image is such a perfect frame for an intervention, with its arc and head detail, I will have to hit this
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