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Keep The Pizza In Mind!

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Combo piece by Pens (ig) x KVLR (ig) x Wee Nuls (Nuala Convery | ig | web) replacing the Gang Of Freaks by KVLR x Ten Hundred x Wee Nuls in Union Street, with an echo back to KVLR’s 2015 piece in this spot: Pizza Pipe. Official title: Patchwork Creeps. KVLR and Wee Nuls had earlier done the pieces in the windows of the Sunflower (see final image), as a demo for an audience at the August launch of the programme for HTN21 (Belfast Live).

The menagerie in the background is by Malarky.

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Afar

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Abstract work by Without Matter (styled here as “W|OUT”) whose Instagram has disappeared.

Previously: Apart

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A Brush With The Devil

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Work by KAYOS of FA [Foreign Assassins or Fresh Art (ig)] krew in Kent Street, replacing Danni Simpson’s R U OK?

Previously: KAYOS Cat

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Knuckle Dragger

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Work by NOTA [None Of The Above] of TMN [The Most Nasty] krew in Union Street, Belfast, replacing Rob Hilken’s fried eggs.

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Shared Grief

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Ashling Murphy, the County Offaly schoolteacher who was killed while jogging, was a member of Ceoltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, playing fiddle and concertina (Ceoltas). Her death provoked an outpouring of grief and anger across the island, and beyond, including in the Markets, where she was remembered as a fellow Gael. The verse is a popular one from cards and social media – A silent grief that’s in our hearts, no human eye can trace. For many a broken heart is hidden beneath a smiling face – modified slightly to read “hidden and alone“.

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Funny Things Are Everywhere

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A tiger on the telephone? “From here to there/And there to here/Funny things are everywhere” – a doctrine of Dr. Seuss, from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Painted by Lucas Antics (tw | web) in the style of South Asian truck art that was seen at Belfast Mela at the end of August (2021).

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Leaving Belfast

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The Ballyhackamore mural by Ed Hicks (ig) – painted along with murals by emic and Alana McDowell – is on the eastern side of Eastleigh Crescent, so that when looking at it the viewer is looking away from the city and towards the … hills – perhaps Scrabo country park.

Previously by Hicks in east Belfast: California Dreamin’

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The Great Pumpkin Loves You

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The cult of the Great Pumpkin seems to be spreading from the US but it’s not clear that in fact the Great Pumpkin loves unconditionally: in the Peanuts universe, Linus believes that on Halloween night the Great Pumpkin rises from the pumpkin patch and delivers toys to good and believing children (Peanuts wiki). Paste-up in Belfast city centre.

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Dire Wolf

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Dawn Aston’s (ig) wolf in High Street, Larne, is inspired by the dire wolves in Game Of Thrones (BelTel) and ties that to the disappearance of wolves from Ireland: “Local legend claims that the last wolf in Ireland was found dead in 1712 near a village near Camlough and that the locals rejoiced to be finally rid of the beast, which had taken their livestock and given their children nightmares.”

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Yin Yang Koi

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Art by R|B Blackcat (Fb | ig) in the door of the Swanston building in College Street, Belfast. For background on the building, see the previous art in this doorway, The Gateway Is Love.

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