6447. Stapleton Road

Logoe and Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024
Logoe and Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024

Logoe and Silent Hobo are good friends and on his most recent visit to Bristol, it looks like Logoe found time to hook up with his mate and collaborate on this wonder wall. The combination of writing and story telling is original and eye-catching, and goes straight into one of my favourite collaborations of 2024. Logoe has pulled out all the stops with his distinctive script writing and produces a very tight and tidy piece with transitional coloured stripes filling the letters.

Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024
Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024

Sitting on top of the writing, Silent Hobo is telling us a story of what looks like heart break, but without the context is difficult to be sure. Rather ominously, the first panel has a woman saying ‘We’ve been through this already…’

Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024
Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024

In the next frame, a woman, is it the same woman, is saying ‘love is not enough’, a phrase that would wilt the heart of anyone on the receiving end of the comment

Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024
Silent Hobo, Stapleton Road, Bristol, October 2024

The final part has a man, looking a little worse for wear, saying ‘OK’, which probably means not OK. The three panels could be stand-alone pieces, or part of a continuous conversation, and I guess that it is for the viewer to decide which. A magnificent collaboration from this pair.

6385. M32 Spot (193)

Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024
Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024

Wow, wow, wow! This is something rather different and special from Silent Hobo. Not only has he changed his style, but these pieces come as a set of three on three sequential columns under the M32 at the M32 Spot.

Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024
Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024

The three pieces appear to be snippets from a conversation, and I rather hope for Silent Hobo’s sake that they are not autobiographical. The first column has a portrait of a man declaring “Baby I’m doing my best”.

Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024
Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024

The second column is a reply from a woman saying those words that nobody wants to hear “Yes but…” Sounds like he might be in trouble. The portrait is remarkable, and really so different from the rest of his work. It is less cartoony and more realistic and has the appearance of oil on canvass.

Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024
Silent Hobo, M32 Spot, Bristol, September 2024

The third column is the killer blow… “You told me you were good”. Whatever the context of the conversation, I hope all works out well,. I am full of admiration at how skilful Silent Hobo has been to get viewers to invest so much in the characters in such a limited space. I suppose we can all construct our own stories about the three columns, but the artwork, which is remarkable, speaks for itself.

Passing the time

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A chance encounter

with a fellow traveller

great conversation

.

by Scooj

Oblivious

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Builders out building

not exactly woke I’d say

conversations heard

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by Scooj

Three words

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Do you remember?

Conversation opener

to warm our cold hearts

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by Scooj

Polemics

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Discussions we have

rarely end in unity

father-son struggles

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by Scooj

In passing

 

Snatched conversation

‘e do it before I do’

do what? I wonder.

 

by Scooj

Conversation returns

 

Work network is down;

some plunge into panic mode

some take time to talk.

 

by Scooj