I have an opportunity to contribute to some street art in my local area. We have these big metal boxes throughout the city which house the circuitry and doodads for traffic lights. There's been an ongoing initiative for years with local councils to paint them up and make them look "pretty" instead of just being big ugly grey metal things on street intersections. It's also an anti-graffiti incentive I believe.
So anyway, I've been dying to do one for years but never had the confidence. Offers only crop up twice a year (I think) and they're very much in high demand, so it's first come first serve. This time I decided to say a big boohoo to my confidence issues and sign up for a box. Well I got one! So now I am busy designing to submit my proposal.
The concept is in relation to a few very worrying and painful incidents that have happened in our area recently. Some sick fool has been putting poison or baited food in the public off-leash dog parks. Consequently, the dogs who impulsively eat everything and anything they find have ended up being taken to the vet in varying states of physical stress and illness... and a few have sadly passed on.
This is my contribution to the memory of those dogs. I didn't know any of them, but I'm absolutely horrified that someone would do such awful things to these beautiful creatures and consequently cause pain to their owners and loved ones. It's murderous and sick. I feel helpless and extremely sad for people with dogs who are afraid to take their furchild out for exercise to these parks.
So yeah... awful story... but trying to help ease people's pain and brighten their day.
It will be challenging and I still have to double check the box area to make sure I can actually paint on all four sides, I think the back may be too close to a fence however, so I may have to reassess my composition a bit. Was thinking about putting them all on leads but that seemed a bit much, so maybe just a few.
The birds are symbols of freedom and spirits. I have to submit the final design proposal tonight. What do you think?
