It’s just a wall so how hard could that be to photograph! Well perhaps not just any wall but the side of the public conveniences building in the little town of Murrayville. Waiting for the light to be ‘just’ right while walking around public toilets with a camera is likely to get one arrested in the city but out here I think people just thought it a little odd.

It was a beautiful and unexpected flash of colour to a dusty mute landscape and was as much a relief to the eyes as to other needs! Perhaps this cheerful mosaic will never be compared with the Mesopotamian masters but I am pretty sure the people who live in Murrayville and passers through in need of some relief all think it’s grand!

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘366 Days of 2012, Day 34 – Toilet Block Mosaic’. 1/800 sec at 70mm f/3.5, ISO 400