Smug Mural, Mitchell Lane, City Centre, Glasgow

The alternative title for this mural painted on the end of a four-storey tenement in Mitchell Lane, linking bustling Argyle Street to Gordon Street, is - in the Glasgow patois -"There's been a murdurr". From on high, a young woman with a Sherlock Homes -type magnifying glass, appears to be examining something at the foot of the gable wall. This is a slice of gallus humour - 'gallus' being a Scots word for 'bold' or ''near the bone'. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that there was a murder at some point in this narrow back street - or something nasty in those parked bins!
Why it is called the Smug Mural, I do not know! Perhaps another Blipper can throw some light on this street art and the artist involved. It fairly enlivens a dull dark lane. Today it was extremely wet and squally but with sunshine between showers. I used the wet cobbles and puddles as part of the composition, selecting a very low viewpoint to emphasise these. I finished the picture by applying the poster edges filter as I did yesterday, as it suited this gritty street scene.