Graffitti Granny

On the pavement at 13 Wiesingerstrasse Vienna. Jews were taken to concentration camps from their appartments by the Nazi.

Her name sake lives on to bear the sad memory of the human condition.

Atlas is left in the cracks in the walls to also bear the grief of the human condition.

The Blues family returns to ponder the monolithic structure which was built on the inheritance of families like theirs . Like Charles Dicken’s Bleak House.

They think of Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antiques land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert…. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener, 1842 hung as criminals rather than acknowledged as in a military war situation.

Melbourne’s invisible Indigenous history – ABC News …

The Forgotten Wars between the British and the Indigenous Inhabitants of Australia.

Bella has come to the Biennale to find her twin, Belle who was here four years ago. Belle had made it! And so now has Bella if only in the virtual world of world wide web. Artist are exploring what is Real in these modern times of virtual social media.

https://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/20bos/

Chiharu Shiota’s site specific installation captures the lost memories of the long gone convicts of Cockatoo Island. Man’s cruelty to man is beyond comprehension for Bella so she hides in the walls.

Happy Dick felt at home with the other sculptures by the sea at Bondi Beach.

Bondi beach sculptures by the Sea 2015Sally Portney’s sculpture Nascenta, blades of grass. “..everyman shrouded by the enormity of nature”