Not wrong.

Fitzroy, July 2015

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Look, I can't say I'm having a whole lot of fun right now – what with the collapse of democracy in my country of birth and its repercussions for the entire world.

But at the peak of the AIDS epidemic, activists had a saying: "In the morning we bury our friends, in the afternoon we protest, and at night we dance." Because joy is freedom. Laughter is freedom.

Doing my best to keep dancing.

Image: Fitzroy, June 2015

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Another bit of enigmatic graff that I still wonder about.

Brunswick East, June 2015

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Possibly the beginning of my quiet obsession with urban basketball hoops.

Brunswick, May 2015

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I miss Melbourne's stencil art. Those little elephants in the second photo in particular, which used to be all over Fitzroy in different variations. Now it's mostly just shitty tags and boring slaps that feel just as much like branding as the advertising and capitalist culture that graffers purport to resist. (Yes, I know that street art and graff are mutually exclusive worlds, for the most part. My complaint still stands.)

Fitzroy, May 2015

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Lol. Possibly my all-time fave piece of graff.

Brunswick, April 2015

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For Jill.

Brunswick, April 2015

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Ten years on, and this one still haunts me.

Brunswick, April 2015

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