A wander from Tate to Barbican on a February week day. Impressions: Art gallery to art gallery. Sculpture, marble, bronze, metal, glass, concrete. Tourists, workers, families. A Mediterranean blue sky, brilliant light, so cold. Question: What material found in the street appeals to you and why? (Marble, bronze, brick, glass, metal, puddle water…) Find out …
Inns of Court on a June weekday afternoon. Impressions: Spires, arches, alleyways, chequer board marble, anachronistic, hallowed spaces. Time warped but spotless, not aged, and scrupulously cared for. Floppy haired shiny shoed boys, miniature lawyers, alongside actual lawyers, tourists, students, legal professionals. Clang and ding of scaffolding poles, building works, cranes rising behind the rooves. Black …
Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park on a week day afternoon in July. Impressions: Sweep of lavender bushes, imposing Imperial War Museum, planes swooshing above. Orchard of low fruit trees, empty playground, groups of school kids, tourists, American accents, people sitting at outside at tables and chairs, old lumpy trees and broad leafy canopies. An excited dog leaping …
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