A steel rod sculpture found at a wall belonging to one of the many retail shops at Campbell Street.
Tag: rod
Penang Street Art (Chowrasta Market)
A steel rod wall sculpture in Chowrasta Market depicting how convicts from the old British empire who were brought in to Penang as laborers. Those who managed to regain their freedom later became small traders and eventually formed up the Chowrasta Market.
Penang Street Art (High Heels)
A wall caricature made of steel rods depicting how pawnshops in the old days generally have elevated counters as a mean of protection.
Penang Street Art (of Chasing Cow and Fish)
A steel rod caricature located at Malay Street, George Town depicting the activities of the locals of Fish Lane and Malay Street during the old times. The area once housed a Malay village where cows were usually slaughtered by meat sellers while on the other side at Fish Lane (a small street intersecting with Malay Street), local fishermen can be seen making and selling salted fish. The area was once nearby the sea before the land exclamation of Beach Street coastal area.
Penang Street Art (Kimberley Street Kopi-O)
Steel rod sculpture at a second level wall of a shop at Kimberley Street, George Town.
The art depicts a day in an old coffee stall.
Penang Street Art (Prison Break)
This steel rod sculpture located at a building at Acheen Street, depicts a rope being tied to the window presumably by someone trying to escape from the building. The building was used to be a prison before it was later converted to a warehouse.
Penang Street Art (Market Lane Toddy Shop)
Steel rod wall sculpture found at Market Lane, George Town. The sculpture is installed at the front entrance wall of an old toddy shop. Toddy is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree such as the palmyra, date palms and coconut palms. It is popular among the Indian community here and even to some Chinese.
The sculpture depicts a person climbing up a palm tree, presumably to harvest the sap of the tree for making toddy.
Penang Street Art (Prangin Lane)
Steel rod wall sculpture located at Prangin Lane, George Town, describing the neighborhood as a place for petty trading and activities such as drying of salted fish and basket weaving.
Penang Street Art (Rock Candyman)
Penang Street Art (Carnarvon Street)
Also known locally as Coffin Street due to a number of Chinese coffin maker shops along the street, Carnarvon Street is located right at the heritage zone of George Town. The wall caricature depicts a paper effigy maker trying to create a paper car which would later be burned for the those in the other world, according to Chinese belief.
