University of Roehampton Campus on a week day morning in May. Impressions: Serene, green, overcast skies. Winding, shaded paths, historic buildings, stonework, fast moving staff and students travelling around campus, shots of summer colour. Elegant lake, swans protecting their crowd of cygnets. A place to learn, to think, to wander, to just be. Question: What is …
Manor Park Cemetery on a week day afternoon in March. Impressions: Quiet, peaceful and yet full of visitors. The stone of a 17 year old next to a 91 year old. A sea of headstones, a sea of memories. People missed and lost and remembered. Many stones are ruptured – cracked, peeping clumps of grass, nettles, …
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park on a week day lunchtime in March. Impressions: Oscillating between bitter cold and picnic worthy sunshine, blow your ears off wind and stillness. Every variety of daffodil, pale yellow, lemony, duck beak yellow, orangey, sturdy heads bobbing. Untamed wild space, nettles, thistles, thick white blossom, lush green, moss, ivy, holly. Old gravestones bearing …