Saul Steinberg turns words
into three-dimensional forces with a life of their own, agents of change in
their landscapes. He is a tiger for puns. PELACO stands several metres high on
scaffolds, like a Jack ‘Captain Blood’ Dyer shirtfront on the neighbourhood in
general. Less overstated is Steinberg’s bittersweet VINEGAR, the evergreen
skipping girl hopping eternally above its flat message. The artist’s monthly
versions (July is a masterpiece) of Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum’s Highett Street house are
surrounded by monster lettering COUNTDOWN, their descending scale indicative of
mortality. Hence perhaps the shift to other
transitory Richmond signs: EPWORTH and MELBOURNE CLINIC.
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