Tag: art
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Bus stop.
Hidden handsGift a sprayOf sun. These concrete cylindrical bus shelters with their striking orange fibreglass window frames and matching seats were designed and built around Canberra from the mid-seventies. Despite their impracticalities and moth-to-flame attraction for vandals and graffiti artists (the Lexan windows were particularly vulnerable to being melted with cigarette lighters and are mostly…
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Floriade 2022.
ducks.clean.traded Kelly and I took our mums out to see this year’s Floriade today. A perfect warm spring day to wander amongst the curated beds of the largest festival of flowers in the Southern Hemisphere. Floriade has only been open a couple of days and the artisanal palates of Daffodils, Triteleia, Irises and Poppies are…
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The Atacama Giant
Here is your object of wonderment for the day. The Atacama Giant is the largest geoglyph (a large drawing made on the ground) of a human figure in the world. It is located on the Atacama Desert plateau in Chile and measures an impressive 119 metres tall. The plateau is a canvas for over 5,000…