Spray paint the walls of Birmingham. Four real places every Brummie writer knows, alive with people walking past.
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Spray paint the walls of Birmingham. Four real places every Brummie writer knows, alive with people walking past.
Get it on Meta QuestUnder the blue-brick railway viaduct on a spring afternoon: bricked-up arches to bomb, a passage under the tracks, an old pen factory gable, bunting over the yard and trains rolling over the top.
The canal basin at blue hour: the wharf warehouse, the little toll house and the Broad Street tunnel, narrowboats lit up on the water and the library glowing gold across the basin.
Underneath the great interchange on a drizzly morning: giant concrete piers and retaining walls, three levels of motorway deck overhead and the canal running through beneath them.
A cobbled workshop yard off Vyse Street at golden hour: brick walls and roller shutters to paint, festoon lights, the tram gliding past and the green clock on its island.
Birmingham red brick, Staffordshire blue engineering brick, board-marked motorway concrete and steel roller shutters, each with its own real surface for the paint to sit in.
A full colour wheel on X and skinny, medium and fat caps on A. Hold the can still and close, and the paint runs.
26 letters plus stars, crowns, bolts, hearts and arrows. Stick one on a wall, spray over it, peel it off.
People stroll the towpath, chat under the arches, wait for the tram and stop to photograph your work. Trains, narrowboats, trams and the motorway overhead keep Birmingham moving around you.
