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@atriplex@adlsolarpunk.net So true - I am not against murals as a whole, which I did not clarify and instead just used a vomit emoji. I am talking specifically of the mural culture that is in Adelaide (tho by no means unique to here), where they are frequently commissioned by business or the city council as an attempt at beautifying/interestingafying (<-- real word) a place, that imposes itself on a place and the people that use it rather than emerging organically. They are also often used as a means of squashing tagging out of spaces and other informal forms of street art. And many of artists that make them do not bother to create them in relation to the space well! And many of them are an attempt at making an ugly building look good - in many cases I would prefer a less ugly building/car park/whatever etc. Obviously building constructors and mural painters/commissioners are rarely overlapping groups... So, this is not to say that I have problems with all murals - there are some spectacular ones out there! - I just think that many of the murals I see around the city are not very good, and not made very thoughtfully Interesting that u should mention the burnside shopping centre mural. It looks very much like the work of Seb Humphreys/Order55, who has been very hit and miss for me in the many years I have been aware of his work (I had a big street art interest in 2014). Some of his are interesting in how he has pushed spray paint techniques, and some feel very empty of feeling, the burnside one included. I think for me it's because it is so clearly tied to the commercial nature of the site it's hard to see it as an earnest interest in form and colour that some of his other, more illegal, past works have been But yes, cities need beauty and color! But what would it look like if our architects were allowed more capacity for beauty in their designs? What if they had better green spaces? I don't make these demands of murals, but they can be treated a bandaid solution to deeper issues