Last Sunday we went into Sydney's CBD for breakfast, a visit to the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) and a visit to one of the city's museums to see a (disappointingly small but still brilliant) series of photographs of Sydney from the early 1900s onward.

On the eastern edge of the CBD (alongside the AGNSW) there is an expanse of greenery called The Domain. Underneath it is a car park, which is our preferred one. It's a bit of a hike from the Domain car park to the city, so in 1961 a 200m (about 700') moving walkway was installed to carry people at a little below walking pace to where the CBD proper starts. At the time it was the longest in the world, and is still the longest in the southern hemisphere, I believe.

By the mid 90's the tunnel was looking a bit grim, and the city council commissioned an artist called Tim Guider to paint a series of murals (under the collective name "Tunnel Vision - Sydney") depicting various aspects of Sydney life. They range from the child like to the abstract, some with references to other Australian artists, and took the first 3 months of 1996 to complete.

The travelator was broken down that Sunday (as a 60+ year old piece of equipment is wont to do), so I took the option of grabbing some shots since nobody else was on the travelator that early, and it wasn't moving. But which of those to use for my PESO?

This one is some sort of metaphor for the information age, I would guess. It is made of newsprint. You know, clippings from newspapers. Newspapers, things which were made out of dead trees, and which had ink squirted on them to form writing and pictures, those things? OK, you know those empty buildings which have the fading word "Newsagent" over their doors? Yeah, them. They used to sell the things.

On the far left, lost in the glare, unfortunately, the extension becomes an arm holding a pen. No, not a stylus, a pen. A tube that contains ink. You could press it against dead trees and make patterns of writing with it. No, I am NOT making this stuff up. In the centre, the fragments of newspapers form an eye, and if you look closely some of the iris is made up of ads for spectacles. On the right, the news stories start to fragment.

So... is the story that (right to left) the writer finds fragments of information with his or her eye and brings them together in the form of writing with the pen? Or (and bear in mind that in Australia we walk on the left so you're seeing the mural left to right on the travelator), is the written story being read by the eye of the reader, and then fragmenting in their mind? You can judge for yourself.

Although the mural was completed in 1996 it is obviously updated on occasion. The "C" word (for The Bug That Shall Not Be Named On Social Media) appears as a cutting which has been added on the left hand side, and we certainly (blissfully) didn't know about THAT in 1996.