Sunday afternoon, I went for a walk along the canal and over to the Donauinsel. I've only ever been that way on bike before, but I thought I'd do it by foot this time in order to get a closer look at the route. I came back along the western side of the canal and made a discovery.
An art gallery! Or something like that. There was a whole series of elaborate images on the underside of the bridge, evidently the work of a variety of different artists. They were really quite intriguing. Vienna has a lot of graffiti, especially along the canal, but the vast majority is just random scrawls. Nothing like this.
I took pictures of some of my favourites. I like the ones that look like they've jumped out of either a fantasy book or someone's nightmare.
Like that lobotomy up top, which I imagine to be the sort of thing one would find careening around the upper levels of the old abandoned Buffalo psychiatric center. That dude in the middle is clearly having either a panic attack or a drug-induced hallucination. And then there's the Queen of All Evil there at the bottom. A close relative of der Erlkönig, she travels through fresh spring gardens, plucking children from their mothers' arms and draining their life-force.
A few minutes later, I stumbled upon a lost key, lying on the ground. This was fortunate, because instead of constructing stories about the lobotomy man that would keep me up all night worrying about what might be in the closet, I had to concentrate on translating, "I found your key by the canal today; how would you like me to get it to you?" into German.
A few minutes later, I stumbled upon a lost key, lying on the ground. This was fortunate, because instead of constructing stories about the lobotomy man that would keep me up all night worrying about what might be in the closet, I had to concentrate on translating, "I found your key by the canal today; how would you like me to get it to you?" into German.