Hand In Glove

Continuing from yesterday's post about these knitters who have gone in overnight and wrapped things up in their winter clothes... here's the hand sculpture on Eagle Street by Sebastian Di Mauro. Normally, the hand looks like this.

The project, which includes wrapped up lamp-posts, statues and bollards, a clothes line and a giant spider web, had over 800 contributors, knitting for months to make this all happen. Find out more here.

Want to visit all the sites yourself? See a map with the sites marked here.

Sea Of Hands

Here's another one from West End Live. I know I'm posting loads from that day but there was so much going on - and over a hundred shots I haven't posted. This is a section of the Sea of Hands: a long-running campaign by ANTaR aimed at reconciling Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. Supporters design a hand using the colours from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags and attach their name to it. Over 2.5 million people have added a hand since 1997. The target is 4 million. You can add one too here.

Accordian Player (3)

Posting magically continues despite me being on me hols. Back in late June.

Accordian Player (2)

Posting magically continues despite me being on me hols. Back in late June.

Accordian Player

When I was at the Brookfield Show I came across a bunch of Morris Dancers in the weirdest outfits. I thought it was all supposed to be white shirts, white faces and a few coloured ribbons... but I'm no expert. Anyway... the musicians were just as good to look at as the dancers.

Posting magically continues despite me being on me hols. Back in late June.

A Week In Hands (last one) and Traffic Stopping Art (number 11)

My ultimate combination of themes would have been to have incorporated glass in this shot... then I could have posted this yesterday in a triple whammy!

Definitely room for improvement, there.

For the rest of the "Week in Hands" series, click on the "hands" label below.

For others in the Traffic Signal Box series, click on the "TSBs" label below.

A Week In Hands (Saturday)

Here's another hand from the South Brisbane mural. Plenty of Australian motifs here: the painted indiginous man, the hand print, the dots (used a lot in aboriginal art), the gecko (of which there are loads in Brisbane) and of course the Kangaroo.

Kangaroo meat is quite the go here right now. The steaks are looked upon as a healthy choice as they are high in protein and low in fat. They even make kangaroo sausages. Stick these in some bread and hey presto - kanga banger sangers!

A Week In Hands (Friday)

This is a section of the mural that runs along the outside wall of South Brisbane train station. It goes for about 50 metres. I can't find much information on it (if you know, please tell me!) but further along from where this shot was taken, it says it was painted to celebrate the 2000 Olympics. Don't ask me about the meaning of it all, though; speech not enduring what the mind conceives? Hmmm... Still, it really brightens up the street.

I'll leave my diatribe about tagging and taggers for another time and place.

A Week In Hands (Thursday)

Rock paintings on the Aboriginal Art Walk in Mt Coot-tha. I was very excited at my find and really impressed at how well preserved they were until I read on a sign nearby that they were painted in 1993. Ha!

A Week In Hands (Wednesday)

Here's the hand stencil again - this time posing with its modern counterparts on a little "Graffarty" wall.

A Week In Hands (Tuesday)

Pointy hands in Eagle Street.

A Week In Hands (Monday)

There are a lot of hands around Brisbane...
Stenciled hands on walls go back to the earliest Australian cave paintings. The main function of them was to record people's presence and association with a site. They are used a lot today too.

These ones are on the wall of West End primary school.