neighbourhood graffiti: update

Since I posted Neighbourhood Graffiti last month, I’ve walked past the location that I described in that post several times because I expected to see more graffiti here. I did see one example a short distance further along the path:

…but it lacked the artistic flair of the earlier examples:

However, Paula and I came this way earlier today after eating breakfast in Queen’s Hill, and we were in for quite a surprise. The top of the wall on which the earlier graffiti had been painted is at about eye level, so I’d never made an effort to see over it, but today as we approached the wall I noticed that a mechanical digger was in the process of clearing land, so I did peer over the wall, and this is what I saw:

In fact, the first of these two photos was taken from inside the walled area (see below), because it’s a better image than the photo I took over the wall.

Paula, meanwhile, had walked on ahead, and when she reached the entrance to the premises enclosed by the wall, she found that the gate was open.

“There’s a ;ot of graffiti inside!” she shouted back.

And so there was. What follows is an image of every graffito that we found here. The first four images are of graffiti on the inside of the wall past which we walk on the outside.

Because it was so sunny, I couldn’t see the images on my phone screen, so I inadvertently chopped off the right-hand side of the first two graffiti:

I’ve seen the word ‘SHOCK’ used in several locations whenever we cycle ‘down south’, and it clearly has some significance in the graffiti artist community, but none of the other examples I’ve seen have this level of flamboyant artistry.

I’m not sure whether the section on the right is part of the same tag, because the colours don’t quite match, but I’m assuming that it is.

And I’ll be back to take better pictures to replace the ones posted here in the next day or two.

The next graffito is a little more subdued than the previous two examples, but it shares their complexity of design:

I imagine that it was probably the artist’s intention, but the next example is beautifully framed by the trees on each side:

The design is completely unlike any other graffito above.

And this creation is on the opposite wall of the enclosure:

I think the word is ‘DEUS’, although I can’t see any religious significance. You can see the top of the mechanical digger over the wall.

The last two tags, towards the end of the walled enclosure, are extremely basic, but I’ve included them for completeness:

If you check the first photo above, you will see that there is an even taller wall on the right of the alleyway, which I thought was ripe for graffiti, but it may be that future additions to the collection here will be restricted to the internal and external surfaces of the walled enclosure on the left. There is room for more.