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'A Smiling Mouse And A Hungry Owl'

velimirPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago2 min read

This is very likely the most ambiguous street art that I've ever seen, so I couldn't resist taking the photo. Why would a depressed owl with a city on her mind be thinking of a smiling mouse? :D What's the green pile under the mouse? No idea. That's exactly why I like it very much. An absolutely vague representation, a non-existent thought, an l'art pour l'art direction? What's more, this is located on the wooden side of a small half-ruined house. Why? No idea! It's just there. The drawings kept me interested for quite a bit as I was trying to solve the riddle but never entirely got to that point. Maybe you guys figure it out better than me.

Colours are pretty much washed out. No idea if it is because of the elements or it was intended to be so. The images are set on a textured wooden surface. The colour objects are painted on boards and then hammered on to the wall. They're not painted on it. The white parts in the bottom and on top put the whole set in a perspective. If cropped out, nobody would be able to tell if it's a wall of a house or just a row of old planks. This is also the sole purpose of the window in the bottom right.

Something just came up to my mind. Maybe we all sometimes feel like that smiling mouse, not aware of all the hungry thoughts all around us. :D

Enjoy! :)

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