East Brunswick Graffiti

I like to wander about the streets of East Brunswick late at night or early in the morning. What is busy during the day with lots of people and colour and movement fades into the social recesses and shadows of night. The usual urban activity has fled and it is just me, a few frisky possums or snarling cats, and the graffiti.

I don't have to wander far from my front door for the graffiti: the above was taken in the bluestone laneway that backs onto half the houses in my street. This part of the laneway is a kind of T intersection that spills into the service entrances of a few of the Lygon Street restaurateurs that ply their trade in this part of town. As I was setting up for this photo three workers from the Lebanese restaurant were packing up to go home and watching me with deep suspicion, despite the fact that it was around 3 am I thought it would have been obvious that I was harmless with my camera. Still, they avoided my attempts to speak with them and continued to watch me until I packed up and walked away.

East Brunswick has changed a lot in the last 10 or so years, many of it's factories have been converted into flats or pulled down to make room for new buildings. The image below occurs on a factory wall that now backs onto one such new apartment development. 

The City of Moreland has around 70 kilometres of bluestone lanes and I for one am glad that they decided to retain them rather than replace the bluestone with concrete. The above shot was somewhat awkward as street lights from Lygon spilled across an empty lot to bath half the image in an orange fluorescent glow while the other half faded to black. The shot below shows the entire factory wall as it scrambles toward a neat one point perspective and the street light that marks the laneway entrance.

It will be interesting to catch some daytime images and see how these compare. The final image below is taken in the same laneway but looking onto the back section of the factory where the above image was taken.