TheRamblingWombat Sydney

In Between Two Worlds

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Through a combination of cloud murals/etchings and thirty hanging silver spirit figures artist Jason Wing, of Aboriginal and Chinese descent, made a stunning transformation of the 200 metres long Kimber Lane in Chinatown, in 2013. Lying, as it does, at the rear of and between two blocks of mainly restaurants I had (before the transformation) become accustomed to the sight and smell of mounds of rubbish and food scraps in Kimber Lane as I would hurriedly make my way by of a night. Continue reading “In Between Two Worlds” →

TheRamblingWombat Sydney

‘Youngsters’ in the Street

On the corner of the George and Barrack Streets (across George Street from Martin Place) I came across this bronze, almost life size, sculpture of a young girl in baggy pants and a hoodie. Looking around I could see no plaque or anything else telling me about the sculpture though I did notice a separate, similarly clad, youngster about 10-20 metres away further up Barrack Street at the entrance to the Burberry store which occupies this prime city centre corner site. Continue reading “‘Youngsters’ in the Street” →