Posts Tagged gardens
Out of your mind
Posted by megan in city, gardens, personal notices on 4 December 2011
'You must go out of your mind in order to come to your senses', Fitzroy (Melbourne), 2011
A tiny public garden on a busy street corner in Fitzroy has been adopted by a man who, by his own confession, is addicted to colour. Here is a person who truly values the pavement as a medium of expression and is not afraid of the challenge that cobblestones present to an artist.
'Meme Corner', Fitzroy (Melbourne), 2011
The garden’s passé railway sleepers and tired pelargoniums are no match for the vitality of his patterns, diagrams and aphorisms.
'Addicted to colour', Fitzroy (Melbourne), 2011
I look forward to seeing how his Epicenter of Love has evolved next time I visit Melbourne.
'Epicenter of Love', Fitzroy (Melbourne), 2011
Garden borders
A thoughtful graffitist provided a decorative fence for this little garden of asthma weed near Piss Alley in Enmore. To see another tiny nurtured garden, check out Darlinghurst Nights.
Elsewhere in Enmore, pavement degeneration around a cast iron alignment pin has created a niche for a weedlet garden. Many thanks to PC for his enthusiastic explanation of alignment pins, which indicate where the surveyed kerb line is. For me, official pavement embellishments such as hydrants, manhole covers, and the various kinds of alignment posts, pins and stones, can be enjoyed for their aesthetic qualities or read like an archive of urban development.