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Prize for our planet
rewarding innovation
our planet the prize
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by Scooj
Tag: Hope
3856. Purdown HAA Battery (31)
There is always something joyous about the work of Antikki, good karma perhaps, and this piece definitely has the feel-good factor about it. The poise of the two figures and the relationship between them is full of kindness and hope. Another feature of her work is the connection with nature, which comes across with the plants weaving in and out of the figures.
Antikki appears to like painting these concrete slabs up at Purdown, but the risk up there is that it is easy pickings for taggers who also seem to like this spot, at least the tags on this one haven’t affected it too much. I always get fired up by the optimism and goodness in Antikki’s work. Hoping for more before too long.
Somewhere…
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Ever elusive
that pot of gold escapes me
best to be at ease
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by Scooj
Pretty
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Home working escape
in the garden a hebe
tells me all is well
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by Scooj
It will pass
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On the horizon
a speck of hope, of after.
Better days ahead
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by Scooj
Witness statement
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Compelling story
reported by Sir David
environment first
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by Scooj
3207. John Street (2)
A welcome return to John Street and the second of the special pieces in the ten archways on the side of a building undergoing redevelopment. This archway has been beautifully painted by 3Dom and is a direct reference to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As social commentators, many street artists have found the coronavirus pandemic to be a rich source of inspiration and 3Dom has created this powerful piece. This clever work feels rather threatening with CCTV cameras and a whole host of intimidating shapes and references in red surrounding the blue light of humanity – I suppose the blue light is a symbol of hope. It will passs. A nice shout out to Hazard too.
3168. Dean Lane skate park (350)
I don’t know the artist Mr Hoops who painted this banging burner in Dean Lane, but if I were to liken it to anything it looks like a mash up in style of Soker and Hemper, both of whom I initially thought might have been behind the piece when I first saw it. So what I am basically saying is that I think it is very good indeed.
The letters spell out hope, something we can all relate to in these crazy times. Some great letter shapes and vibrant colours on a dark background and the inclusion of a magic hat combine to make this a most enjoyable piece to look at. I don’t think it lasted too long, but the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The letters
Seeds of change
Preparing the ground
life will never be the same
look on the bright side
by Scooj
Yesterday’s haiku from which the last line was taken to create the first line of today’s:
Each moment savoured
each crumbling of every clod
preparing the ground
Circular tag
Escaping their homes
to see a world through new eyes
each moment savoured.
by Scooj
I thought I’d try something new… it might go nowhere. Every day I will take the last line of the previous day’s haiku as the first line of a new one. I’m sure it is far from an original idea, but I thought I’d give it a try.
This takes me back to my student days when a friend of mine, Jasper and I would spend our time in boring university lectures writing one line of a poem alternately for the entire lecture, and then continue the next day. I recall that occasionally we’d hit on something really good, but mostly it was puerile nonsense.
yesterday’s haiku was:
Gloom, it’s in the air
forlorn folk ‘exercising’
escaping their homes
Natural adventures 