ASR – September

Is
nothing sacred?
3.8.05 – Walking past the dog shampoo joint (sigh!)
this morning I caught sight of something odd about one of the
cute doggies painted on the wall. After scrawling his challenge
to all graffiti comers, the local graffiti-ist had taken an
extra couple of seconds of his precious time to deface the samoyd
(pic) looking forward to (or reminiscing about, it’s
not really clear) his luxury shampoo, by unnecessarily adding
large Japanese comic-style eyes. This leaves the footpath critic
in a bit of a quandary. Is this defacement, or enhancement?
It surely started off as simply kitsch, but the added
eyes have a different reference point altogether. There’s a
bit of the classic Aussie larrikin in the new eyes that can’t
be denied, and if you look carefully, I think you can see the
beginning of a wink in the right eye, adding a conspiratorial
element to the piece.
No, I’m going to have to think more about this..