The Sheep have gone.
In the run up to xmas I noticed that the sheep have gone from the golf course!
I have walked over there again 2-3 times now since noticing this. There are a conciderble amount of damaged and fallen trees due to the recent winds. Several things I particularly noticed were:
How much like a golf course it looked like. The sheep have munched the grass right down revealing all the bumps, hazards and bunkers etc. They had softly erroded into the general landscape before but seem stark now.
Another thing was electric fences kept the sheep in and one small corner was fenced off and has not been grazed on at all, and is completly wild ….a meadow.
The swamp is completely under water and is a resevoir now. The Brook of Plenty deeper than I have ever seen it.
But the most amazing thing is the graffiti in the subway: So much new graffiti and odd graffiti. Rather free form kind of a bit ‘fine art’ for graffiti. Eliza seems to quitened down and someone called Lone – Loner – Lonersz has become prolific. But still somehow building on the strange style of Eliza’s.
I spent a lot of the dog walk wondering what I could do in this graffiti areana?
It would not be trad graffiti for sure….but everything about graffiti ticks my boxes. I thought how ‘street art’ in a wider sence had become quite sophisticated with illusionistic pavement drawings, the use of stencils taking this kind of guerilla underground art to new places.
How much effort am I prepared to put in? I realised that these graffiti artists do actually make quite an effort on the larger pieces as they use paint and rollers to prepare and block out large flat areas.
It’s the relationship with cave paintings that interests me. Primeval and raw, yet skillfull and sometimes delicate. About identity within a community? Showing the viewer some kind of shared symbolism. Both a little bewildering.
