There are little parts of every city that get forgotten, a broken window, a lifeless grey wall. They are the dark corners and run-down alleyways that beg for new life or a splash of colour.
There’s a building I pass by often, a slightly awkward building perched on a busy road in West Leederville that has this damaged, rusty vent. Metal slats are missing leaving a big dark space (it actually opens up into the building basement) I’ve been weirdly obsessed by it.
It’s that dark void I’m interested in, at first I thought it looked like the building had one closed and one open eye. Wouldn’t it look cool to paint that? But then I thought it might be possible to create some art that occupies that dark void, perhaps I could use that negative space to tell the story of that aged wall. It clearly needed one of my tormentor characters.
Say hello to Frank, I wanted Frank to be chomping down on that busted metal frame like he was standing in the basement holding onto the frame and watching the cars zipping past. I’m pretty satisfied by the result.
UPDATE: Frank managed to win a Creative Project award from one of Perth’s Mayor candidates. I’m too lazy to dig up the details but you can take my work for it 🙂
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