Portstewart has had a bit of street art appear recently. Actually it's happened in a few towns in the area, funded by the local council in order to 'encourage footfall'. More, please, in my opinion. This one sits just under Dominican College:
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| Wall mural in Portstewart. Hasselblad, 60mm lens. Ilford Delta 3200 which I rated at 800 and developed in HC-110 1:31 for the recommended 7m30s. It needed longer - I forgot to compensate for the fact that the day was very dull and overcast. As a result most of the shots were printed at Grade 4 or above, even on MGV paper. |
I like it when towns paint public spaces. I've probably mentioned in my blog many times that Korea cities are grey, grey, grey. A few years ago I was approached by a church group that painted property walls around the city with the owners' permission. I enthusiastically agreed to help out. The murals brightened up the neighbourhoods a bit, but because there were no real artists in the group, the results were a little bit childish. Still, better than grey.
ReplyDeleteGrey is not a great look in the city, I agree - better to have naive art for sure :) Sounds like an interesting project. Over here if the Church Groups do 'art' it is generally pretty heavy stuff - lines from scripture or phrases such as 'Try praying'. In the country you get posters nailed to trees with stuff like 'The wages of sin is death'.
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