Saturday, April 10, 2021

the painted corner


Over the years, this corner (Lucille and Sunset) has hosted so many different murals - this time, sky blue, mimicking the sky above, and with a vapor trail leading straight down to the tip of the bird's wing.  It looks like a barn owl in flight, to me - but that strange wavy bars, like a 1950s television set warming up, tempt one to call it a barred owl ... And the wall coloring makes the image look weirdly exposed, too - until one looks at the ground, and realizes that this is something of an illusion - it's just very, very blue.  So far as I can see (from the car), the left hand mural is labelled Isle of Eigg - a very remote island in the Hebrides, and a somewhat strange place to find depicted in Silver Lake, though doubtless there's a story behind this ...

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