Work by Dublin-based street artist Le Bas for CNB15 in Kent Street: a hand-drawn abstract, repeating design against a yellow background with jagged white lines over the top.
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No Irish
Tourists from France, Japan, Israel, Germany, Italy, China, Spain and Croatia are welcomed to Boyd’s shop in the Lower Shankill estate.
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Holding My Breath
Work by DMC (Dermot McConaghy Twitter | Instagram) at the harbour, an underwater version of the “Invertigo” piece he did the week before (with JMK (Twitter)) CNB15 in Lisburn.
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An Octopus’s Garden In The Shade
As a companion for Emic’s Laganside seahorses, here’s Friz’s (Web | Fb | Tw) bright red octopus, painted for last September’s Culture Night celebrations.
Also by Friz for CNB15: Galaxy Paws.
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We Borrow The Earth From Our Children
The environmentalist saying “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” is used by emic as the title of his work for CNB15/Belfast Almanac Environment conference. Here are two details, of a bee and (below) a hummingbird, and finally a full shot which shows a tree growing from the mind of a boy. The origins of the phrase are – fittingly – unknown. (QuoteInvestigator)
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Have They Gone Away?
The South Belfast UDA this week issued a statement that they “won’t be leaving any stage whilst republicans of any faction still exist”. As the Newsletter article notes, the South Belfast branch of the UDA does not speak for the whole organization. Until confirmed, then, the new mural above – “Welcome to the loyalist Lower Shankill – UDA 2nd Batt. C. Coy” – provides only circumstantial evidence …
Elsewhere: Join the South East Antrim UDA: Glenfield Community Association.
Update (2015-10-16): Similar statement from “IRA commanders” BelfastLive | Irish Mirror
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Face In The Crowd
This CNB15 street art by Neequaye Dreph (web | Tw) is a collage of mouths, eyes, and the occasional nose.
Previously featured: Dreph’s writing for CNB14.
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The Darker Half Of The Year
For the day that’s in it, spooky work by Faigy showing a skull-faced spider on the brim of a fedora-like hat on a witchy woman with an unhappy cat for a familiar. See Andrew Stewart’s tumblr for a work-in-progress image.
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Taking The Hump
TLO‘s latest work: a green stallion mounts an orange mare.
Previously: Demonizing Paisley, Three Studies Of Ian Paisley, and Ian Jong-un, and also Wee Angel)
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