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the new outdoor seating for the hosier lane restaurants has taken over rutledge lane for covid safe dinning. (at the moment there is mostly intra-city tourism and the crowds of international tourists are absent.) this included repainting the walls with a rather bland, family-friendly theme of disney’s alice in wonderland.
how delightfully boho is it?
over a decade ago, these much-misinterpreted words were stencilled on 167 flinders lane’s rear wall in rutledge lane. i will not explain the legally correct interpretation of those words, but the effect of their misinterpretation. their misinterpretation created a street art zone in melbourne’s centre and one of the city’s top tourist attractions.
overtime many layers of both authorised and unauthorised paint have been sprayed over those words and whole laneway. it has been painted empty nursery blue and buffed black, in preparation for melbourne now. in places, the enamel paint is half a centimetre thick.
art performs many functions, even paradoxically one function as to be functionless and excessive. another is to overturn rules and conventions, the lords of misrule with a child’s eyes. that is where the notorious fire extinguisher filled with paint protest performance of february 2020 has to be looked at again.
is hosier lane a libertarian paint zone free to exploit for profit? or is hosier lane an anarchic paint zone where freely given play/work contributions of graffiti and street art are welcome? these questions are at the centre of the debate about hosier lane’s function. they leave me contemplating two alternatives futures for the lane’s walls. will it be bland, apolitical murals, celebrating celebrities and seasonal festivities, or the artistic unknown?

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I counted 112 "i"s in that text.
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