Glen Molloy’s Samuel Beckett mural in the Dundela area of east Belfast was largely whitewashed the day after it was finished (see the SMC Collection). (This was only a few weeks after the Maya Angelou mural across the street was painted and graffitied.) (Belfast Live) The portrait was restored in 2021 with blue sparkling blue eyes, and the quotation was added again last (2022) summer.
The quotation is from Worstward Ho! (not “Westword Ho!” as written on the wall just out of shot to the left): “Say for be said. Missaid. From now say for missaid. Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in. Move in. Out of. Back into. No. No out. No back. Only in. Stay in. On in. Still. All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Painted by Glen Molloy (ig) in Bathgate Drive, east Belfast
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