Vika Verb - Flying Graffiti

July 24, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Walking round to grab some food at Rootys earlier, I was surprised to see this floating about:

flying-graffiti

I’ve tried to find some infomation about it but, other than rumours of a flyer (no pun intended) knocking about, the sole font of knowledge is Pete Ashton’s post from the other week on the Custard Factory blog.  From that I learn that it’s an installation by artist Vika Verb:

a challenging reminder of where we are and how we got here - is in the form of poetry inspired graffitti which will float above the Custard Factory in Birmingham. It is the first of a series of similar installations at the Custard Factory.

and it’ll be properly unveiled at 5pm today.

I assume that’s what it is anyway - what are the odds of their being two big inflatables floating round the Custard Factory today?

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  1. […] one kind of sneaked up on me yesterday, and judging by Chris Unitt’s post on Created in Birmingham I wasn’t the only one. When I saw them setting up and thought it was someone hanging out […]

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