Underwood Street, Woodwork

Underwood Street is a laneway behind Dalley telephone exchange. Underwood is also the name of a famous brand of typewriter manufactured in the early 20th century. Paste Ups are a form of street art, where images on paper are cut out and pasted onto a wall.Woodwork by Simon Yates features photocopies of old fashioned typewriters and old fashioned dial telephones with a similar shape. It contains messages hidden in the keyboards of the typewriters and number dials of the phones. This ia another exhibit in Are You Looking At Me? Laneway Art' which is part of the Art and About Sydney festival. You can also the remnants of some graffiti in the last shot which is a reminder that this was the location of the Grasshopper Bar, which operated here during last year's festval.