Public art is encompasses any form of art you see in a public place, large or small, statues, murals, graffiti, gardens, parks, etc. The art should be visible from streets, sidewalks or outdoor public places.
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I had a marvelous response from all of you on last weekโs PPAC #9 Since Cee is taking a mini rest break, and I am going to need some time off for knee surgery in a few weeks, I will be hosting the next couple of Photographing Public Art Challenges. Then she will host several for me. I hope that works for everyone. After visiting each entry I thank you each of you for joining along in our challenge. Here are several posts that really grabbed my attention. They are all worthy of a second or third look.
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Australian Art as Symbolism
Have you heard of someone with a steely grip? This hand carries with it not only the intensity of steel, but a symbolic meaning as well.
Located in the Dandabah Visitor’s Centre, Bunya Mountains National Park this hand represents the Bunya rainforest reaching out for the sun. Here at the visitor’s center, you feel the power of the sunshine, but deep in the Bunya forest, very little sunshine reaches the forest floor.
Several informational posts which are almost PPACs as well circled the grassy field. One informational drum-shaped sign describes the hunter-gatherers coming to the forests to live and gather the rich resources in the forests. Europeans began arriving in the 1860s and coming to the forest to relax. The National Park celebrated its centennial birthday in 2008.
Another explains the geologic composition of the soil, from its inception as a lava flow hardening into basalt rock, eroded by time into a rich soil pf gullies and gorges replete with forests and grasslands.
A third post tells about the native birds and another some of the other animals you might find in the forest.
tree tattoos on the Bunya Man of Steel’s arm 
For Natalie’s Weekend Coffee Share
Thank you all for your kind words about my crazy health month. Grab a cup of coffee and join in Natalieโs Weekend Coffee Share. https://natalietheexplorer.home.blog/2021/08/20/laneway-art-and-recent-reads/
As you remember this is Cee’s regular week hosting PPAC. (She’s even, I’m odd.) Because I have more time inside resting, I’ll also host next week’s PPAC, my regular week. We will let you know on a week to week basis after that. I have surgery scheduled to repair a torn meniscus pickle ball wound on September 14th. I’m so thrilled to be fixable! The down-time is very little, but Cee will be giving me a break during that time.
Meanwhile, my walking has improved – not the speed, just the lack of pain. I walked 4,000 steps yesterday, half with Puppy Girl, and half at Watson Lake with Vince. The monsoons have filled the lake and it is beautiful. Pictures to come later.
My face still light purple from connecting with a sidewalk a month ago is almost healed, so people who see me only think my husband gave me a light whack across the cheek. I bought some walking sticks, BTW. Hoping that will help me avoid this outcome again!
Thanks for joining me again this week. Have a great weekend! Stay safe.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
79 responses to “PPAC #10: Symbolic Public Art in Australia”
[…] had a marvelous response from all of you on last weekโsย PPAC #10.ย Marsha picked out the featured bloggers and says โthank youโ to each of you for joining along […]
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The hand looks very strong and determined. It made me think of someone trying to out of the ground (or a rut, metaphorically).
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Yes, or reaching up for a helping hand from a higher power or a drowning person reaching up for a pull out of the water.
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Beautiful Sculpture.
Intelligent sculptor and great ideas!
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Thank you so much. ๐
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You are welcome my friend
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Hey nice lady, Marsha. This post is amazing. All that art! Impressive and Lovely.
You left a sweet comment on my last post and Iโm responding to it here. I believe my baby Buddha is what caught your keen photographerโs
Eye and I couldnโt be happier. Thanks for the invite to post it here.
https://selmamartin.com/a-gogyohka-composition-on-lullaby-for-tankatuesday-poetry-prompt/
Thanks dearly. You rock! Iโll be saying a prayer for you concerning your upcoming surgery. Be well. I also wish you miracles.
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Hi Selma. Thanks so much. Yes, I loved your baby Buddha. Glad you enjoyed my post as well. I love this new challenge because it gives a opportunity to showcase photos that I might have missed – like these – in another post. ๐
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https://onemillionphotographs.com/2021/08/23/38565-adorable-lucky-cat-public-art-at-the-japanese-garden-in-portland-oregon/
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Adorable is the perfect work, Liz. Thanks for joining in. ๐
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Thank you for the privilege of listing me in your challenge – I am very tickled!
This is such a powerful sculpture – forceful, disturbing, and so appropriate for the visitor centre of a national park. And from the scale derived from the car parked nearby, it is impressively sized as well.
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Powerful, forceful and disturbing describe it well. It photographs well. ๐ I’m glad I took several angles of it. It’s the first time I’ve used it.
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Looks like itโs better to take more shots than we think we might need.
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Always, you can always throw them away, but I donโt often enough!
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I only do housekeeping when Google Photos says I’m approaching capacity!!!!
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Or you could open up another gmail account and have a million more photos stored in that account.
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I’ve opened a new gmail account just for that purpose. I decided to clean up my old one anyway, and to keep using it for a while ๐
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Now you can use both. I keep family pictures on one, historic pictures on another.
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Ah! Organization! Something else to think on …
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That is SOMETHING ELSE! I’ve been spending lots of time organizing. ๐
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Good day Marsha,
Another wonderful post for this week. I want to thank you for giving me a break this past week. It is truly appreciated.
https://ceenphotography.com/2021/08/23/ppac-10-potpourri/
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Thanks, Cee. You are welcome. I’ll do # 11 this week and then if you are up to #12, that’s fine, if not, I can do that one as well. Just let me know. Vince and I found some new PPAC this week on one exploratory trip.
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That hand looks amazing – if a bit scary (without the explanation I would have thought it’s a wight or something coming out of the ground!).
I’m glad you found my post (thanks to Cee). I was away for the weekend and I had pre-scheduled the post and only added a pingback now.
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Thanks, Elke. No worries. Thanks for sharing. That had is a little scary. I have to look up the meaning. I had forgotten, so I’m glad I did. It was still cool against the sky, but much better with an explanation. ๐
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Here is Woolly Muses entry.
https://woollymuses.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/public-artppac-wk-8-geelong-art-4/
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Thanks, Cee. Sweet looking mural. ๐
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I’m enjoying your offerings very much, week after week. This tree hand is magnificent. It expresses the exact anguish that I imagine plants feel and would gladly whack the humanity on the head if they could.
My father took me to see three angels in his city of birth last Saturday and it was most wonderful, no matter how our family is a non-believing kind. I had never even heard of them before.
https://manjameximexcessive6.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/ppac-the-three-angels-in-maribor/
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I love that hand, Marsha, it is simply gorgeous.
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Thanks, I did too. I love the fingers.
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Beautiful sculpture! Statues in the UK are the blandest I’ve ever seen, so uninspiring, unlike this one.
Also thank you for the feature!
Here is mine:
https://photographias.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/ppac-tokyo/
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You are welcome, Sofia. Now I’m off to see what you have this week. ๐
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That had sculpture is unique. Strong, but foreboding somehow.
Here’s mine: https://nofixedplans55.blogspot.com/2021/08/ppac_20.html.
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It is a little foreboding, isn’t it? I think it’s the rope like things going up the trunk, and I think those are supposed to represent the strangler figs. https://alwayswrite.blog/2021/07/31/treesquare-31-trees-in-the-bunya-national-park/ Now I’m off to see what you have for us this week. ๐
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Very cool, Marsha!
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Thanks so much. It’s a fabulous find. ๐
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This is a wonderful post Marshaโฆpowerful indeed. Love the tree trunk hand. Itโs great that you were able to go to Queensland during your visit to Australia. Too bad, I havenโt even been. Have a good week my friend!
Here is mine https://boomercoupletraveljournal.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/barcelonas-public-art/
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Thanks for the link, Teresa. Queensland was where I spent most of my time – 2 weeks. There’s a lot to see. It is huge. ๐
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I am not into beaches and tropical settings, maybe when I get older and I canโt bear the cold anymoreโฆI will have the chance to visit Queensland.
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We didn’t get to many beaches. In Brisbane, there was a fake beach along the river. Very cool. We got stuck in some terrific rains. Anyway, no beaches. I guess I’m going to have to get older too! ๐
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This is such a beautiful sculpture and I always love seeing it. It’s difficult to photograph well and you’ve done a great job Marsha.
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Thank you for that high praise, Carol. I am discovering photos I didn’t know I had because I can finally get into my original stock of photos. It was hard to read the card on the hand, but I finally made out the name of the sculptors. Then I could move on with Google to fill out some facts. I’m so glad I got so many of the signs, even though they were not perfect, they made a good place to start.
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I’m pleased to hear you have a date scheduled for surgery to sort your knee ๐ Here’s my contribution to this week’s challenge: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/gallery-the-art-nouveau-gems-of-riga/
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OMG, I don’t even have words enough to cover this post. Wow! Thanks for your link and your kind words, Sarah.
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Here is Elke’s post (picturesimperfectblog).
https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/cephalopods
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Thanks Cee. I’m sure you will get several. ๐
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Wow. The hand reminded me of a sculpture which I’m sharing today. No big hands on it as such.
https://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/fishermans-friend/
Thanks for the mention.
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The steely grip sculpture is not just amazing to look at but I loved its symbolic meaning , reaching for the sun. This is another part of the world I had no clue of and now just a wee bit wiser.
Also best wishes for a speedy recovery, Marsha. Take care.
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Thank you so much for the kind words, Sheetal. I’m ready to be well again. ๐
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I am always interested to see public art around the world. Here is my first entry I think it is quite poignant.
https://theplatinumline.com/2021/08/20/when-shall-we-three-meet-again-photographing-public-art-10/
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Thanks for the link and for joining us this week, Anne. Wonderful post. ๐
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I bet the lake filled with fresh rainwater was gorgeous. Thanks for pampering me this week. Great photo for this week. ๐ ๐
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It was. I can’t wait to share. You are more than welcome and very deserving.
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Amazing art! Thanks for sharing.
So sorry to learn of your fall. I hope you feel better soon my friend. Take care and be extra careful while walking.
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Thank you for your kind comment. Sadje. I have fallen standing still under a tree. Most embarrassing. My word for the rest of this year is FORTUNATE! My plight could be much worse. The good news is that I have all of you to keep me company as I recover fully. ๐
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Take care. My best wishes for you my friend
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Thank you so much, Sadje. Your well wishes help tide me past the pain.
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Marsha, I like how the hand with arm shaped like a tree trunk and the information posts also look like tree trunks. That must be quite an educational visit. I’m glad to hear your walking has improved. Lack of pain is good. Thank you for the mention. My pingback is above. Have a great weekend!
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Iโll enter it when I get home lab work for surgery.
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This is such a great post, Natalie. I could hardly wait to get home to my computer to see it on a bigger screen.
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