Oucha

Oucha, the girl on the wall in Edgecliff outlasting a tough critique. (scroll down to P.17)

Comments

[Dataceptionist]

That link doesn't seem to work? Whats the backstory?

[Goldstein]

The link works fine: Right click it and download it (it is a PDF, 5.81MB) either to a temporary file or save it, then open it -this "oucha" thing is at pages 17/18...

[adrian]

Sorry about that, Datac, the first page of document is blank and must be scrolled to P.17. It can be accessed directly or, as Goldstein suggests, by Right click.

[Dataceptionist]

thanks!! Worked it out!

[Rainer.the.cabbie]

I remember Oucha from way back in the late eighties when she first appeared. At the time one of the more tastefully done street art works in Sydney, she always intrigued me, and often cheered me up. But then the work seemed to stop and she was unattended for a long , long time...
The word on the street was that the artist, who came to Sydney and Australia as a young fellow and fell in love with it like many of us, had his stay rudely interrupted but vowed to return. And to my delight he did, and so Oucha was continued. One night at 2am I picked him up in my cab, hands the color of a rainbow as he paints Oucha purely by hand. I have to say that he was delightfully outrageous and very good company. On exiting he asked my new passenger for matches to light a rather big joint which he pulled from his pocket. As the saying on Oucha not so long ago stated "Beauty has no age" I am glad to see the same reflected in some human beings. I wish him well and hope he keeps painting for all of us.