Street Boxes

Electrical Box, Ann & Wickham,
originally uploaded by BrisbaneBryce.

In any urban area, one of the common problems with any large, regular, or flat public space is graffiti. Tagging. Someone always has paint or a marker and will sign their name. Less common are writing walls and thoughtful public art. Sometimes public art is sponsored. Near my house in San Francisco, the city sponsored a massive public mural -- it took the artist nearly three months to paint. One of the reason sensible cities sponsor or encourage writing walls and public murals is to discourage trash graffiti.

In downtown Brisbane, on of the most common features is electrical junction boxes, typically located at intersections. So often fixtures like that are grey rectangles with so many layers of paint it is almost funny. Some local art group, or maybe several, or perhaps spontaneously, have taken to painting these street boxes. Great stuff, colorful, and rarely tagged. I'll be posting more, some without comment. I've taken to snapshotting them with my phonecam and putting them on my Flickr site.