Multitudes of Love

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• Title: Multitudes of Love (2024)
• Artist: Kyra Kum-Sing
• Wall size: 7 metres by 9.5 metres, 72 square metres
• Location: 229 Denison Street, Newtown, adjacent Fleming Playground

The artist Kyra Kum-Sing is a Malera Bandjalang, Mitakoodi woman. She is curator at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Op and an artist. Of the work she says "Love is always around us in multitudes. I've loved, I've lost, but most importantly, I continue to love!"

Facing a boundary hedge and swing set within Fleming Playground, this bold work is nine windowless meters wide and 7.5 metres high, at the side of a two-story brick building with a peaked tin roof. The work is seamlessly painted over a pipe to the right of the roof's apex, running vertically up the wall, higher than the roof by approximately a meter, with a small turbine vent at its top.

The building's front faces the street to our left. Towards the front, on the second story, the mural stops at a balcony, below, on the ground floor the mural continues, meeting a section of brick fence. The work meets a curb and the split and furrowed asphalt of an old alleyway.

Behind the street artwork's vibrant explosion of coloured patterns is a base colour of light bluish grey. Artist Kyra Kum-Sing has painted squares, scattered and overlapping like cards thrown down on a tabletop. Some disappear off the edges of the artwork. Kyra Kum-Sing's squares are organic, all their edges meet to form black-rimmed oblongs, but each is unique. In the middle is a yellow square, its black- outlined bottom edge is a little wavy, just less than truly straight, some have one side longer than the other. Each of the thirty squares is brightly painted in one of seven distinct patterns.

The most prominent colour combination is a yellow square, bearing three navy blue stripes and on top of each stripe are eight, evenly spaced, yellow dots. This square appears seven times. Other colour combinations are green and red, purple and orange, and blue and yellow. Each square has a base colour adorned with stripes, wiggly repeated lines, striped arches, or dots and dashes. Each pattern has clean, bold lines.

Over the top of the squares are comparatively thin lines, emanating from a central, red, heart-shape. It captures six squares in its outline. Outwards from this initial heart is a repeating heart pattern of red then yellow, then black, evenly spaced lines tracing the original shape, The lines only slightly obscure the squares beneath as they grow in size like a ripple outward giving the impression of a pulsating heart.

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