I am sure Sami and others will be around for Monday Mural.
It screams, "I am Sydney! Look at how diverse we are in Sydney! Look at how empowered women are." If you need to shout it out loud, I don't think it is a battle won. Isn't it like stating, I live in the best country in the world? Or, this is God's own country? It's a form of jingoism, and I hate it.
Oh, I do seem to be in a grumpy mood tonight, and I'm on a roll. Apparently if the stereotypical American tourist see black people of the Negroid race in any other country, they think of them and speak of them as Afro American, no matter that they have no American connection. Queer.
Ok, here is the mural and by the date, the photo was taken somewhere in Sydney.
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Thanks for contributing to Monday Murals Andrew.
ReplyDeleteNo comment, Sami 😉
DeleteI can see what you mean, but I do like the two dancing ladies in the top left diamond shape. They look so joyous.
ReplyDeleteNoted JayCee, thanks.
DeleteIt is like preaching us these lectures to pedestrians. No thanks
ReplyDeleteIt does have a preachy feel to it, Roentare.
DeleteUh, yeah. No thanks.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, a YouTube creator whose channel is called The History Guy produced a video on jellied candies that my husband and I watched minutes (!) ago. And don't you know, the video covers Turkish delight extensively.
There you go Darla. Do you intend to go out and buy some?
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJuk-e57Jo
ReplyDeleteAhh, MC. Now you have personalised the mural, its intent, the artist and the wall owners, and I am thinking perhaps I should not have used a mural I was not keen on.
DeleteI agree with you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob. I am not against representations of our diverse population, just about the preaching about it.
DeleteThank you for sharing this mural!
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda.
DeleteThat is indeed a crap mural Andrew and I am surprised that you gave it some limelight. Why don't you and your adopted sons make a mural in your neighborhood?
ReplyDeletePuds, it's not really that crap. Andrew has sold it short.
DeleteThat's why I posted the youtube link featuring the artist and the family whose house was decorated, as #100 of a Council-funded scheme. You can get a better view of the whole mural there.
To quote from another website:
"The lucky wall to get a Wendy Sharpe make-over is owned by Ewan Samway and Matt Vagulans and their young sons. Ewan and Matt, two gay fathers, love the theme, Women’s Empowerment, as they raise their sons to respect women and all that they have achieved."
In the video I love the comments by the kids even if there is a bit of foreshortening of historical perspective (esp the remark about "the last 20 years").
Ummm, "adopted sons"..... maybe you'd knew about all of this already?
YP, all walls are taken by people who generally have talent.
DeleteMC, I didn't pick up that they were adopted but I did think they looked quite different for brothers, which is not unusual anyway.
DeleteI don't know if the sons of the mural family are adopted and would never hazard a guess about that because there are so many possibilities - adoption these days being the least likely. I thought the boys in the Youtube clip were totally charming. If YP had that clip in mind I would be surprised if his reference to adopted sons was to anyone other than P and K.
DeletePS: I am already imagining the video, with you and P and K in front of the mural you have commissioned. Perhaps the mural would be about empowering smallish fluffy white cats (subject to ethical containment).
DeleteMy mistake MC. It was YP who mentioned adopted sons. I need to slow down and read more proper.
DeleteI agree it isn't a mural that you want to stay and look at because it makes you happy. Maybe it is meant to symbolise acceptance?
ReplyDeleteRiver, I am sure the intentions are good, and mean acceptance.
DeleteTo me, the mural didn't convey whatever it was meant to convey, if empowerment was what it was meant to be.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Pradeep.
DeleteAm I the only one to like this mural? I do!
ReplyDeleteBertiebo, maybe not the only one. Thanks.
DeleteTo me it looks like just a bunch of faces.
ReplyDeleteQuite true, Margaret.
DeleteI approve of the message, but otherwise it's kind of amateurish.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought, Kirk.
DeleteIt certainly doesn’t jump out and say ‘look at me’ The women portrayed certainly don’t look empowered at all. There’s a sort of meek almost sad look about them all
ReplyDeleteCathy, I do agree. I would perhaps like them to appear to be bursting with joy.
DeleteWhen I was working we did an annual diversity survey for several years (and made some real progress based on the input.) One question asked about race, and the option was "African American". We had a good number of staff members who were African, born and raised in Africa. They objected loudly - and correctly to the answer options. (We had a division that did development work around the world and had staff from over 50 countries at one time.)
ReplyDeleteTP, you wonder at the need at all to describe them as African American, when many would have ancestors who had been in America longer than a lot of white people.
DeleteI hate being preached at, so I understand how you feel.
ReplyDeleteJB, I suppose no would like being preached at. Certainly not me.
DeleteI understand your reaction, Andrew. The intentions were good I guess.
ReplyDeletePat, I am keeping that in mind.
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