Brunswick St signs for Sign2

 

The wall might once have carried a certain rough elegance — the stern face of Ned Kelly staring out from faded stickers like a ghost of rebellion lingering in the laneway. But around him the surface had become crowded with restless layers of tagging, torn posters, and spray-painted declarations, each fighting for space and attention.

Music flyers for nearby gigs curled at the edges in the damp air, pasted one over another until the bricks beneath could barely breathe. The wall no longer felt merely decorated; it had become a kind of urban bulletin board where art, commerce, boredom, and defiance collided without permission. In places it resembled vandalism, in others a strange form of civic unrest — the city talking loudly to itself in paper scraps, glue stains, and hurried signatures before the rain slowly washed them all toward oblivion.

Sony A7RV

FE 20-70mm f4 G

There are two certainties in life: death and taxes. Labor’s budget proposals have combined the two.

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