Bus Stop - Ghindesti

The bus stop in Ghindesti is a simple concrete canopy, square in form, with a flat overhanging roof edged by a checkerboard strip of red and white tiles. Its walls are almost entirely clad in mosaic in ochre, orange, greens, blue, and red; the tesserae small and uneven with quite visible grout lines. Graffiti (Swag, Gucci, МССР for Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic, and Молдова/Moldova) obscures parts of the decoration; the benches inside rusted and partially detached. On one exterior wall a stork carries a bunch of grapes, its wings set against a radiant disc of yellow and orange. This recalls the folkloric “hero storks” celebrated for protecting a besieged city, also seen on other bus stops including the wonderful shelter in Ciumai. On the opposite side, apples and pears appear. A peacock decorates the supporting wall, standing on stylised fields or roads receding into distance, while concentric squares decorate the inside.