Mixed Messages
@signsthereading.bsky.social
Tony McGrath. Using signs, advertisements and messages as the inspiration for observation and comment - enlightened and otherwise
Commemoration. Memorials. Graves. Headstones.
readingthesigns.weebly.com
Commemoration. Memorials. Graves. Headstones.
readingthesigns.weebly.com
I really like this #RoadsideMemorial
Probably simple if one knows how - but admirable if one doesn't
Co. #Cork
Probably simple if one knows how - but admirable if one doesn't
Co. #Cork
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I really like this #RoadsideMemorial
Probably simple if one knows how - but admirable if one doesn't
Co. #Cork
Probably simple if one knows how - but admirable if one doesn't
Co. #Cork
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
#Cork #RoadsideMemorial
Day 9/20
Brian Quilligan Memorial by Mark Quilligan near Mardyke
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
#Cork #RoadsideMemorial
Day 9/20
Brian Quilligan Memorial by Mark Quilligan near Mardyke
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
#Cork #RoadsideMemorial
Day 9/20
Brian Quilligan Memorial by Mark Quilligan near Mardyke
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
#Cork #RoadsideMemorial
Day 9/20
Brian Quilligan Memorial by Mark Quilligan near Mardyke
I could watch the craft of a blacksmith for hours
Forge
MAYBE it is the attraction to the flame. In the years before PassiveHouse design began its elimination from the Irish house, the open fire was great. The way it cast shadows around the room. It...
readingthesigns.weebly.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I could watch the craft of a blacksmith for hours
Have sent me down so many rabbit holes
Hope you are planning an oral history archive on streetnames and signs
Hope you are planning an oral history archive on streetnames and signs
December 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Have sent me down so many rabbit holes
Hope you are planning an oral history archive on streetnames and signs
Hope you are planning an oral history archive on streetnames and signs
Reposted by Mixed Messages
Did like this one from Belfast visit in 2018
Thank you for educating as to artist
Thank you for educating as to artist
December 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Did like this one from Belfast visit in 2018
Thank you for educating as to artist
Thank you for educating as to artist
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
Seahorse, Kelvin Brodie Hunt
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
Seahorse, Kelvin Brodie Hunt
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
Seahorse, Kelvin Brodie Hunt
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
Seahorse, Kelvin Brodie Hunt
Very
Went to Dublin that day especially to see it
Someplaces it is called
The Hauntings
Other places
The Hauntings Soldier
Went to Dublin that day especially to see it
Someplaces it is called
The Hauntings
Other places
The Hauntings Soldier
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Very
Went to Dublin that day especially to see it
Someplaces it is called
The Hauntings
Other places
The Hauntings Soldier
Went to Dublin that day especially to see it
Someplaces it is called
The Hauntings
Other places
The Hauntings Soldier
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
November 2018 when on vist to St Stephen's Green, #Dublin
Complete with residue of red paint
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
November 2018 when on vist to St Stephen's Green, #Dublin
Complete with residue of red paint
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
November 2018 when on vist to St Stephen's Green, #Dublin
Complete with residue of red paint
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you —
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
November 2018 when on vist to St Stephen's Green, #Dublin
Complete with residue of red paint
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
The Hauntings -Chris Hannam,Martin Galbavy-Dorset Forge and Fabrication
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
The Hauntings -Chris Hannam,Martin Galbavy-Dorset Forge and Fabrication
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
The Hauntings -Chris Hannam,Martin Galbavy-Dorset Forge and Fabrication
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 8/20
The Hauntings -Chris Hannam,Martin Galbavy-Dorset Forge and Fabrication
Reposted by Mixed Messages
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 7/20
Homeless Jesus, Timothy Schmalz - this one at Victoria St, #Belfast
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 7/20
Homeless Jesus, Timothy Schmalz - this one at Victoria St, #Belfast
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 7/20
Homeless Jesus, Timothy Schmalz - this one at Victoria St, #Belfast
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 7/20
Homeless Jesus, Timothy Schmalz - this one at Victoria St, #Belfast
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 6/20
Grave of Vaslav Nijinsky, by Oleg Abaziev, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 6/20
Grave of Vaslav Nijinsky, by Oleg Abaziev, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 6/20
Grave of Vaslav Nijinsky, by Oleg Abaziev, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
Day 6/20
Grave of Vaslav Nijinsky, by Oleg Abaziev, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris