Who is all?
Concepts to question and unlearn:
The people
The public
We all/ Us all
Normal
Berlin 2022 🏳️🌈
Utility pavement markings
Utility marks from Melbourne pavements - a genre most of you will be familiar with from your own cities. The codes vary from country to country, and there is a great article by Kurt Kohlstedt in which…
Thick surfaces
Surfaces are deep, although they appear shallow.
Surfaces are spaces of friction, tension and expression. They are the patchy areas between the hard and soft parts of the built environment, between stuff and air, between…
Street/Gallery
Paying attention to walls is how I get most of my information on what is happening in the cities I travel to. I saw these these two posters in Talinn in 2021 and they caught my eye (so to speak ha 👀) - so I went to visit the exhibition…
Covid memorial in London
This is the National Covid Memorial Wall on London’s Southbank. A visual coding of collective mourning governed, of course, by specific rules of conduct. After all, maintaining a civilised and orderly surface environment…
Surface lawscapes
One wall, two worlds. This is the boundary of the tolerated graffiti area in London’s biggest free painting spot, Leake Street. To the left of the image, the colourful section of wall is painted by multiple graffiti writers; to the right…
The semiotics of restriction
Much of our behaviour in shared urban spaces is guided through street signage whose meaning we learn to decode as urban dwellers. Street signs and plaques, traffic signs and notices, are not only one of the main uses of urban surfaces, but they also create…
Surface cohabitations
Urban surfaces are often made up of a collection of materials, produced by different agents, and symbolising contrasting intentions. Paper, glue,…
Kusama x Louis Vuitton x Harrods
The facade of Harrods department store in London covered in scaled up coloured dots as part of a Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton brand collaboration in 2023…
UniMelb construction hoarding
Construction site hoarding on the University of Melbourne campus. This fabric mesh/ metal fence surface regulates access and visibility…