Haiku

These had popped up on a wall nearby and I thought to myself 'the world needs more poetry' so had to share.

I love that someone started it and someone else joined in. I will swing past again to see if anyone added to it.  

As a kind of street art, it's particularly charming.

Note relevant to this post but this cutie's been sitting on my camera reel for awhile so linking it with  #MuralMondays

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Street art in Misawa

 

I have not been able to find out why, but there seems to have been a youth project and an art project to paint the shutters of businesses and adorn walls with murals in the main street of Misawa. Obviously Shuji Terayama (and the museum) feature but so much more.

There are ties with the US (airbase) celebrated.

Plenty of flowers and pretty scenes.

It's a lovely way to make something out of nothing and build community.

Linking with  #KeithsRamblings & #WordlessWednesday

Further reading: Street art in Japan (if not up for walking, the bus will take you past a lot of it)


Bear Season.

Shibuya Stencil Art

 

While wandering the streets of Shibuya finding all the Toilets in Perfect Days, I came across rare street art in Tokyo. It was commissioned, as a guess as it was stencils of all the famous things in Shibuya. There were many in different colours decorating the white wall, but these were my favourites.

Story of Hachiko here.

Linking with #WordlessWednesday #MuralMondays and #PictorialTuesday

More Street art in Shibuya here.

Hobart Street Art

Just back from a wonderful weekend at my first Dark Mofo. What a joy that celebration of art, music , food and life is!

I am already planning how to go back for longer and do more of the pop up parites.

Even without Mona and the art and celebration of life festival, there's plenty of street art around Hobart.

Both official...

and unofficial. 

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Explosion of colour

 

I was taking a short cut through some back alleys behind a friend's house when I stumbled across this explosion of colour. In the space of 10 metres there were all these murals converging... 

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. "― Pablo Picasso

I'm not sure if artists live here or if one mural spurred the neighbours to get one as well...but what a delight.

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ”
― Oscar Wilde

Linking with #MySundayBest #WordlessWednesday #MuralMondays and #AwwMondays because the pencil fence made me go Aww - so joyous and charming in it's nostalgia-inducing reminder of my children when they were little!

What's your dream?

 Walking to dinner, I stumbled across a few new works - well, new to me. I'd just not noticed them before.

I didn't realise the reflection ruined this one, so will attempt to go back and rectify at some point.

And there were plenty of this person along the way, but it was this question that made me pause.

Can you answer it?

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Mural Monday or Mosaic Monday?

Some of these are Invader and some are others in the same style.

All made me smile.

I'm not sure who made the Pigeon below but I was absolutely charmed by it. Brilliant use of space, and eye catching quirkiness.

Whereever you go in Paris there is something to see.

“The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.” —T.S. Eliot

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#WednesdayAroundtheWorld #WordlessWednesday
 

More Street art in Paris

I was very lucky while in Paris to meet up with Kwarkito - his blog is my favourite, with very insightful and poetic posts on a range of topics. Often very beautifully sad on memory and life, often with gorgeous photography. It was lovely to put a person to the words, and we had much to discuss (fortunately we did not need to rely on my terrible, long forgotten French.).

He kindly took me on a little tour of the 5th, and I'm sure I drove him crazy with my endless snapping! But there was so much wonderful art.

 

It is always lovely to flesh out the blogger we know so well through their words with an actual person. Especially as all the bloggers I knew through the blogger brunches or the travel bloggers meet ups have gone. Funnily in recent years I have met more bloggers from Europe than I have from Australia! (Though my readership is more overseas these days so maybe that makes sense?)

As I mentioned in this post, history is everywhere in Paris - you just need to look. This little restaurant was the home of Hemingway's studio which they proudly show with a small picture in the window. It was also where the poet Paul Verlaine died in 1896, thus the name. 

This is just the start of our walk, there is so much more to come.

I did want to say thank you to Kwarkito for giving up his Sunday (Monday?) morning and taking time to meet with me. I really enjoyed it.

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