Colour my world

Sydney March 2016 (5 photos)

You’ll never see a dark cloud hanging ’round me Now there is only blue sky to surround me There’s never been a grey day since you found me Everything I touch is turning to gold

So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love Just colour my world

Just as long as I know you’re thinking of me There’ll be a rainbow always up above me Since I found the one who really loves me Everything I touch is turning to gold

So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love Just colour my world

Sunshine yellow, orange blossom Laughing faces everywhere, yeah

So you can colour my world with sunshine yellow each day Oh you can colour my world with happiness all the way Just take the green from the grass and the blue from the sky up above And if you colour my world, just paint it with your love Just colour my world

Colour my world Oh, colour my world.

“Colour My World” is a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent and recorded by Petula Clark in 1966. It acknowledged the sound of the later 1960s by featuring a riff played on the sitar. Recorded in New York City, “Colour My World” was rush released in December 1966 in an attempt to counteract the disappointing performance of Clark’s preceding single “Who Am I?” which had fallen short of the US Top 20 and more seriously had become the first Petula Clark single since “Downtown” (1964) to not rank in the UK Top 50.

City Walls is a series of street art projects presented by Art & About Sydney and Elliott Routledge of Funstudio.

I’ve already shown you the first artwork in the City Walls project, To Be Free Is To Have No Fear in a recent post.

For the second artwork in the City Walls project, one of the world’s most renowned mural artists has transformed a pocket of the Kent Street underpass into a vibrant canvas.

Using his trademark primary colours and love of practical geometry, MOMO has created a technicolour dream. Known for being the pioneer of the abstract movements within large scale public art walls, MOMO is an artist working in public spaces with homemade tools. His current interests lie with an evolving range of adapted masonry techniques to draft, design, and organise wall murals.

Born in San Francisco, MOMO has travelled most of his life, lived in New York for six years and currently keeps a studio in New Orleans. He has previously created a double-façade 5 story printed vinyl mural in Manhattan, a 73 metre tall mural in downtown Philadelphia, and a 61 metre long mural between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges in Brooklyn. This is his first painting in Australia.

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I was photographing this artistic urban landscape when suddenly, a man dressed in white shirt and black pants just came and sat down, surrounded by all this colour. From my perspective, the timing was perfect and this is a perfect addition to the Half light Weekly Photography Challenge.