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Glasgow Murals

This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge hosted by Patti at pilotfishblog.com is to present images that show the “Power of Juxtaposition”. i.e. where you have two elements in a photograph which when shown together add up to more than the sum of their parts.

Scratching my head, I recalled a tour with some friends of Glasgow’s mural art. And my approach that day had been to show the art in juxtaposition to people – people walking by or the life going on around those paintings large and small.

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The Twa Dogs

in one frame #5

Two dog sculptures take up a position on a residential street – just a couple of streets away from Irvine Harbour. Seems an odd position, this is not a main thoroughfare. Why are they here? It’s a puzzle to me, but anyway they still bring delight.

The Skelpies

This 33-foot-high stainless-steel sculpture at Port Glasgow is indeed a magnificent sight; a memorial to the centuries of shipbuilding on the Lower River Clyde and a means of honouring all those workers. It’s proper title is ‘The Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow’ but everyone calls them ‘The Skelpies’

Photography in Streets

In recent year’s I’ve just thought of street art as 3D murals on the sides of buildings but SandyL’s Friendly Friday Challenge reminded me there are many different types of art around in our streets. Mostly my mindset came from a tour of Glasgow’s building murals we did a couple of years ago. Those murals are fantastic, and I’ve got some of them here in this post.

The featured image (above) was taken in Kilmarnock and it’s one of two two foot high statutes of swimmers appearing up out of the cobbled main street exactly where the river passes underground across the town centre.

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