This little post is a follow-up to one I wrote for April 1st 2011 when I mentioned the blue-painted cherry trees in Port Moody. The other day, as the cherry blossoms are once again at their best I checked to see if the blue has faded as promised. No! hardly at all. I really don’t mind as long as the trees suffer no ill-effects from the paint. Here is how they look in April 2012.

On our recent trip Down Under we were interested to find more work by the artist, Konstantin Dimopoulos, who came to Port Moody to get our trees painted. This work is called ‘Red Centre’ referring to that hot, red-earthed middle of Australia. We found this public sculpture in the centre of Melbourne and we came to understand that the Red Centre i.e. Alice Springs and Uluru (Ayer’s Rock) are central not only to the country but to the hearts of Aussies.

I am compiling an album of lots of public art Alan and I photographed in Feb and March of this year and will put a link here asap. Meanwhile I need to get my one kiln load glazed tomorrow for this weekend’s ArtWalk, 4 plates to donate to Oven and kiln and all the plates made by the 4 artists who were here last week.