28. Baffins Lane car park, Chichester

My mother told me I really should go and check out a beautiful bird mural in the centre of Chichester when I was visiting a week or two ago, so I did.

ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015
ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015

The mural, which overlooks the Baffins Lane car park, is by ROA, and was created during the Chichester street art festival in 2013.

ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015
ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015

Although his work appears throughout Europe and beyond, little is known about the artist from Ghent, Belgium.

ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015
ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015

He specialises in pictures of animals, often gracefully contorted in death poses. These birds however, are very much alive. I will have to look out his work in Bristol.

ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015
ROA, Baffins Lane Car Park, Chichester, August 2015

 

 

Heron

Hunched and replete

while Old Father Thames glides by;

enough fish today.

 

by Scooj

26/30 Bottoms up

Ducking and diving,

unspoken understanding;

synchronicity

 

by Scooj

http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30DaysWildInfo

Jackie

She looked after me

and pointed out the blackbirds

when I was little.

 

by Scooj

to honour my cousin once removed’s seventieth birthday today.

Kingfisher

Slow lowland rivers,

pulling nets for a living,

those halcyon days.

 

by Scooj

Unintended consequence

 

Discarded fast-food;

a gull, impatient, gorges.

Speared from the inside.

 

by Scooj

I saw this unfortunate gull today at the Harbourside in Bristol. It left me feeling conflicted. Gulls are a bit of a nuisance and will raid the bins to satisfy their opportunistic lifestyle, and in doing so often litter the surroundings. However, this is not a nice predicament, and I am left wondering if things will turn out ok.

Haiku 7

 

Vibrant tricolor

and flanking golden flashes

majestic goldfinch

 

by Scooj