Tsunami of Towers - Melbourne Australia
Tsunami of Towers - Melbourne Australia
From my studio window above the forge on Thistletwaite Street, I watch a tsunami of towers drown Melbourne’s skyline, one brushstroke at a time.
The skyline morphs daily, iike a canvas refusing to sit still.
Fishermen’s Bend, this sprawling urban churn, swallows the view I love. One year, the ‘Beyonce’ tower sparkles on my canvas, all curves and light. The next, the ‘Three Stooges’—blocky, browns, black, soulless—crowd it out, daring me to paint them. I love Melbourne’s grit, its brick factories, bygone cafes and corner pubs. But these towers threaten to erase South Melbourne’s soul.
Is this progress, or just erasure? My paintings wrestle with that question—bold strokes for the new, soft ones for what’s fading. Neighbors whisper of leaving, but I stay, my forge humming, my brush searching.
The Tsunami keeps rising.
There’s a canvas upstairs, untouched, staring back at me.
Does it deserve new paint, or should it it stay blank? A silent scream against the towers.
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