THE saying goes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

And while many may have seen last week's Telstra outage in Mildura as a nuisance, artist and war veteran John Prowse saw an opportunity.

From outside his Olive Avenue home one evening, Prowse spotted the crane over the Telstra tower off Langtree Avenue, and was inspired by the sight of maintenance workers dangling hundreds of feet in the...