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Very little survives by way of ancient Greek murals. While many are described by the ancient traveller Pausanias, and while the art of the mural as pertains to Greece is most ancient, stemming back to Minoan times, due to the perishable nature of the materials used and the major upheavals at the end of antiquity, they did not endure to the present in significant numbers. Accordingly, it is romantically fitting, or ironic that in twenty first century Australia, Greek-Australians would consciously choose to employ this most perishable of historical Greek art forms, to record or rather capture their presence within the urban landscape of Melbourne, even as they increasingly sensitive to the fleeting nature of their sojourn therein, as an ethnic entity with its own distinct hypostasis. ....