The street-artist responsible for recent cryptic works on McDonald Road and Wemyss Place has increased his or her oeuvre and extended her or his territory north-east with multiple copies of a grinning skull.
The image shown here is one of two pasted to the police box beside St Mark's Path opposite Broughton Primary School. The reversed numerals 01 02 03 appear, perhaps forming a kind of regressive countdown towards either Death or an earlier form of hominid being.
In this piece, the order of the initials DYV departs from the DVY noted in the 'Jagger' portrait we described last week. Whether this is by accident or design is moot.
Also repeated from that work is the triangular motif, although this time it seems devoid of any masonic significance and more like a pointer.
[img_assist|nid=2314|title=|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=185|height=200]Another copy of the skull appears further along Bonnington Road on the metal box below the telecom mast outside Redbraes. Below it is this masked graffiti-girl by Eddie.
We suspect Eddie and DVY may be the same person: the proximity of placement, technique, and use of stencilled letters are suggestive. The 'just-do-it' ethos of this spray-painter matches that of the urban anti-hero on the former Hopetoun Inn, as does the apparent oversight at the irony of perilous spraypaint-to-stone work being portrayed with comparatively risk-free paper and paste.
Meanwhile, on a filthy bin parked outside Artisan Roast on Broughton Street, various modest works have appeared lately including the rather raddled bear shown below. We have no explanation for the ubiquitous inverted umbrella with 27, but 10-5 may relate to a US police radio code requesting information be relayed to a third party.
As ever, we welcome all readers' observations on these and other works about town.
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