r/melbourne • u/lessons_learnt • 1d ago
Photography New art installation at Croydon Station this morning.
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u/sxjthefirst 1d ago
The artist clearly represents materialistic consumption and bleak modern urban architectue and how it reflects on us as a society
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u/SapereAudeAdAbsurdum 1d ago
It might also be a critique on transport and high-ways. The stacked wheels in this installation are a stroke of genius.
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u/horrified-sequence 1d ago
Ah yes, the supermarket duopoly that has a chokehold on our society
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u/mad_marbled 19h ago
Rather than compete for the one position to lord over us, they are willing to collude, hiding in plain sight.
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u/Bandwidth_Bandito 1d ago
The emptiness of consumerism juxtaposed with the abandonment of the public transport user. Transient transportees seeking fulfilment and finding none. Obviously post modernist.
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u/MikeArrow 1d ago
Whenever I think of Croydon I think of this quote:
"They say his Lear was the toast of Croydon... wherever that is" - Aldrich Killian, Iron Man Three
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u/corkoli 11h ago
Having (Sir) Ben Kingsley (IMO, a kinda good actor lol) play a washed-up drug lovin Trevor Slattery/The Mandarin is a bit of a pissa.
Kingsley portrayed Oswald in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear back in April 1968. He auditioned for no specific role, they said he was good but couldn't get past his original Indian name of Krishna Pandit Bhanji (racist cunts lol). He changed his name to Ben Kingsley, auditioned again and they signed him up as Oswald. Oswald's character is described as "a willing agent of corruption", which parallels his role in Iron Man 3 pretty much bang-on.
A bit of a convoluted story, but there ya go.
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u/nosoupforyou89 1d ago
Can't wait to go see it today
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u/lessons_learnt 1d ago
5pm update.
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u/nosoupforyou89 1d ago
Haha! How the heck did they get it up there? I saw it at like 2.30 pm too
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u/Starfire013 1d ago
Could be an ad for the new hit musical, East Side Trolley.
The tragic love story of a pair of shopping trolleys, one from Woolies and one from Coles.
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u/maybebabyg 1d ago
Finally something to compete with the high vis bollard on top of the bus stop sign out front of Mary Wallace park.
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u/Sparkleworks no avos, no lattes, no eating out, no insulation, yet no house 1d ago
The philosophical implications of this trolley problem! Who do I rescue?
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u/Beer_in_an_esky 1d ago
Ahhh yes. La copulation des chariots. I believe a work of Jung Bogahn's Intoxication period?
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u/casvalzd 1d ago
Is this the Croydon equivalent of the Glasgow witches hat on the statue? 😂 Because this is 100% Croydon 😂
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u/corkoli 1d ago edited 1d ago
- you depart the long box designed to move horizontally
- walk to the small box designed to move vertically
- then another walk to the partially open 'waiting' box (this pictured example displays two smaller, mobile boxes which appear to be mating)
- another long box designed to move horizontally will arrive to take you to the 'primary box'
- upon arrival at the 'primary' box there's will be a small 'computerised' box which can access information regarding how to tie knots
- you have now accessed the final box
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u/InfluentialFairy 1d ago
I was behind a ute earlier today, heading away from the city. In the back of their ute was two trollies.... hahaha
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u/funforever_expert 1d ago
Too much time on their hand and too little imagination to contribute something fruitful for the society.
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