Barkly Street Addition
So a couple of weeks back I was travelling past the Barkly St fence and decided to jump off the bus to check out how the wool was weathering. And to my enourmously pleaseant surprise I discovered someone had added to it!
It’s not the best photo (I realised later) but it reads “I hear U’ stitched amongst the question marks! And it looked gorgeous!
Massive hellos and respect to the person who did it! Please get in touch xox
So in the weekend I headed back to get some better photos, only to discover someone had come along and cut it all off the fence. Not in any kind of nice way either, all the wool was left lying all over the ground. Hmpf.
So I cracked out some spray glue and stuck piles of it back to the top of the fence. Nowhere near as pretty. But better than it all sitting on the ground.
And still there’s no house there…
MRCC gets more press!
The latest Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle action already got in the local paper. And to add to that I did an interview on 3CR’s fabulously awesome DIY Arts Show – which you can listen to online now.
AND today a story has appeared in The Vine about it.
Yay!
RCS in the paper
After the latest action by the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle in Footscray, one of the local papers, The Star, wrote a story about it. Including a lovely bad ass guerilla crafter pic!
What the…
Readers of Radical Cross Stitch will remember last year when the Melbourne Revolutionary Craft Circle got out in Footscray and stitched ‘I Wanna Live Here’ on the fence on the corner of Barkly St and Commercial Road. Here’s the award-winning short film by Anna Brownfield as a refresher
So almost a year on and some philistine (guessing the landlord..) cut it off! Clearly not happy with the community questioning the ongoing waste of such a precious resource the local landmark was destroyed.
The MRCC was clearly not going to let this go unresponded to. So a few days later we were out again, this time armed with bright green wool and tummies filled with Pho.
What the hell is going on?
Why is this block still empty?
Why are there 11 other vacant sites around the primary school?
Why does the State Government continue to believe the outright lies of the property industry that the housing crisis is driven by lack of land?
Why do we still allow this waste of our most precious resource when there’s over 100,000 people every night in Australia with no place to live, let alone call home?
We’ve had enough.