STILL LIFE 263 – WALL OF CONCRETE BLOCKS, DEFACED BY RED LINE
July 3, 2021 Leave a comment
Strolling down tatty back alleys behind a row of small shops in the blazing summer’s sun, and reveling in the burgeoning and totally uncaring unkemptness of it all. The shops’ fronts might look alright, but back here behind the facades there is only sordid and refuse strewn reality – what you see is very much what you get, and what you get is pure, artless, drab functionality, bereft of all thoughts of beauty or attractive design.
And I found a wall of made of concrete blocks – breeze blocks as we Brits call them – on which some bright young thing had scrawled a long red line. Up behind the wall was a fence of crudely painted and rusting metal panels. And in the foreground, parked up close and personal against the wall, a car, patterned by the bright reflections of its stark backdrop.
And – rather an epiphany I suppose – I realised that, should I linger too long in these scruffy and unkempt surroundings, anyone passing by might think me a very real part of them. So I hastened swiftly on, anxious to give a better – if false – impression elsewhere.
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Technique: TG-5 at 49mm (equiv); 200 ISO; spot metering; Lightroom, starting at the Modern 01 profile; south Bristol; 1 June 2021.
