JOHN-PAUL HUSSEY

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Good morning and welcome to the first day of daylight saving. This picture was taken in a junk shop in Footscray. I wasn’t too sure how to title it at first. Initially it seemed like a comedy festival program and the frustrating business of trying to select a show.

Then it reminded me of the time when living in a warehouse in the city with the goldsmith Marcos Davidson. We were on the top floor and there was a nightclub called ICON directly below, and each weekend we had to suffer the sound of these massive bins of glass bottles in the alleyway being emptied each morning.

It has quite a specific sound, of glass smashing but not quite breaking, that it eventually became affectionately known as ‘The Sound of  10,000 Suburban Hangovers.’

But what are these boxes with the moving monster claw called? Because I have  no idea. Rudy, my partner’s 9 year old daughter, has no idea either but says there’s one in the New Market Safeways called, ‘WIN n’ GRIN’.

Art work courtesy of Rudy created while I was writing this post. So yes why not – lets called it WIN n GRIN….you may need a mirror to read her inscriptions though.