The Sonning Guerilla Artist is back

[venta]

Some time ago, I commented on the arrival of a strange installation on the roundabout in Sonning. It was a full-sized house door, in a frame, complete with milk on the doorstep and newspaper through the letterbox. It didn't stay there long.

This morning, the roundabout had grown a profusion of concrete gravestones. One headstone read "THE DINNER ON THE ROUNDABOUT", a Victorian grave surround marked the memory of "THE DOOR ON THE RIVER". There were a couple of others I couldn't read (I was trying to drive round the roundabout), and I'm not 100% sure about the ones I did see.

If there had been a grave to 'the door on the roundabout' I might have thought it was a series of memorials to the artist's various projects which had been destroyed. As it is, I have no clue. I hope they're there long enough for me to have time to photograph them - annoyingly, I took the camera out of my bag this morning before I left for work.

(zandev, did you notice them on the way in ? Can you offer any explanation ?)

Anyway, someone is doing strange and cool things. Hurrah for them. Once again, my Designated Hero of the Week is an unknown artist.

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[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of others I couldn't read (I was trying to drive round the roundabout)

Given this very aspect of the project, I hope it doesn't all end in a terrible irony... :(

[zandev.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of one of my favourite bits of odd art.

In London there is a roundabout with a huge tree-like sculpture made out of traffic lights.

This is great, though it is a bit confusing when driving if you come across it without warning as you might think that the traffic lights actually control the traffic.

[venta.livejournal.com]

That sounds wonderful (from an artistic point of view - it sounds bloody stupid from a practical point of view :)

D'you know whereabouts it is ?

(I'm now having dim recollections that someone (maybe broadmeadow has shown me a photo of it before.))

[zandev.livejournal.com]

Yeah, see the link below. It's in Canary Wharf. I saw it at least 6 years ago, so it's been around for a while.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Not I, but addentry. It was submitted for your photo contest:

http://www.holophrase.net/php-cgi/gallery/album36/tree

[zandev.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a link:

Canary Wharf Traffic Lights

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Whoa! That is confusing. All that red and amber doesn't say much for the quality of life in the 24-hour city which the page you linked claims that it represents, though...

[venta.livejournal.com]

All that red and amber doesn't say much for the quality of life in the 24-hour city

Yeah, I was wondering about that :)