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record 21st-century life in Newcastle on Australia's east coast, a delightful provincial city whose enlightened council stares down a sensationalised vote-mongering anti-graffiti crusade of the Sydney-centric NSW state government.
- Our interest is wall art
- aka aerosol art, street art, tagging, graffiti, whatever. We praise the high-end frescos and murals that add great texture to otherwise banal cityscapes. Images of vandalism, however, in no way intend glorification, nor elevate it - by association here - to the level of true art.
- Australia has a short history
- ignoring (as it does) the world's oldest civilization we stole it from. Lacking classical or medieval buildings or art, with bland utilitarian cityscape and suburbia barely a century old, Australians are unaccustomed to public art. Many cannot distinguish between murals, high-end sanctioned graffiti - and vandal scribblers. While photographing commissioned murals in Newcastle Beach pedestrian tunnel, I was berated by an old lady demanding to know, scathingly and more than a little rhetorically, "Is this art? Is it? Tell me!" I smiled and laughed politely: "Well, yes .."
- Graffiti-Junction is a labour of love and consumes inordinate time, oxygen, and dollars, with negative income.
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