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I don’t trust street art. It can be very deceiving. I walked straight into a wall once thinking I was about take walk among some trees. It was a painting for goodness sake!
There’s a guy in town who makes wierd pictures on the ground. He calls it 3D art. One day it looks like the pavement’s going up and down but it’s not. Another day there appears to be a big hole, only there isn’t. Some people walk round it! Okay, so do I! Well, ‘once bitten twice shy’ as they say.
I remember seeing someone heading for what appeared to be a door. I watched with a big grin on my face as they attempted to open it! Actually, is was a door and they did open it, but you can never be totally certain.
I’m a little more confident now than I used to be. I’ve not tried to stroke a painted dog or feed a painted bird for quite a while! Let me demonstrate my new found bravery. See that pretend puddle? Just watch me walk across it.
Oh dammit, it is a puddle, a deep one at that, and now I’ve got wet feet. I need to ring out my socks. I’ll just sit on this bench…oh no, its not a bench, it’s a mural and now I’m sitting in a puddle!
I give up.
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This painting actually is four doors down from me!
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Thanks to Sadje for hosting the What Do You See? photo prompt.
Painting credit; Joe Hill, Image Credit; Tessa Mills
I would be doing the same thing as you. Avoiding them. They are very well done though.
Have a fabulous day and week, Keith. 🙂
Very wise! You too, Sandee!
That’s the sign of a great artist
It certainly is Beth!
Street art is impressive. Got a good laugh reading this. Thanks.
You’re hilarious. Thanks for fun vicarious journey of mishaps.
I’m delighted you found the mishaps amusing – I doubt he did! Thanks, Dawn.
Keith,
Your humor shines through brilliantly in your tale of caution and misadventures with street art. The playful tone and amusing anecdotes about mistaking painted scenes for reality create a delightful and relatable narrative. Your ability to share these lighthearted moments with wit and self-awareness makes for an entertaining read.
<3
David
That is so kind of you, David, it makes it all worthwhile!
Fabulous painting Keith. My grandfather painted a woodland scene at the bottom of his stairs, a window on a blank wall of his bathroom overlooking a bay, and a cat on a wall in my bedroom which I shared with my sister. All very realistic! Love your take.
I can only imagine how wonderful that must have been!
The cat lasted for decades and a customer came into the bank where my sister worked, who was actually living in the council house where I was born! When my sister mentioned that we used to live there, she asked if she could explain the story of the cat on the wall which they’d discovered when they took off the wallpaper.
Excellent, Keith! Gave me a good chuckle. Some of the street art is incredible, isn’t it? That 3D stuff is amazing. This is coming from someone who can’t even draw a crooked line!
It is. It’s popping up all over our town and we are loving it! Tip – get yourself a crooked ruler!
Hard to say what’s real anymore. You captured that so well and with such good humor.
I’d walk around the street art because I wouldn’t want to mess it up. Fun story!
well done with the humor (as usual) and that mural is well done – and I have a nice book on Trompe l’oeil and now I ant to go and skim it
These 3D paintings are indeed very deceptive. I’d rather walk around it than over it, just to be safe. Thanks Keith for joining in.
Haha, he sounds so weary with it all Keith😄😄 – it brought back that image of Dawn French when she stepped into a ‘puddle’ up to her neck 🤣😅🤣
Very funny, Keith. I too would be fooled with art so realistic. The painting of the forest is great.