Smiling, or scowling, or looking pensive? This ambiguous expression (and what is she sniffing? it looks like a lotus flower, but that doesn't seem likely or suitable) graces a junction box on Hyperion, between Gelson's and PostalWorks (which is where I was heading). It's part of my never ending fascination with the different ways in which these flat, blank, mid-sized surfaces are decorated in these parts.
It is, of course, a Shepard Fairey screen print (only the best, on junction boxes round here): Natural Springs (2015), supposedly representing a young woman who's frustrated by the destruction that's been wrought to the environment by the hunt for fossil fuels. Ummm - I'm not sure that that's an instantly grabbable point? It looks very much like the posters that were for sale in the GUM department store, just off Moscow's Red Square, in 1975 (I think I have one, curled up tight in a roll, somewhere, unless it tore itself into oblivion ages back).
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