A walk to work on a typically wet April morning - Part 1

On Thursday 26th April 2013 as I was walking to work in the sun, I consciously made a note of everything that interested me visually, conceptually and I found myself engaging with everything on a slightly different level.  I felt much happier to actually be part of the world surrounding me.  As such, I promised myself that I would go out the following day armed with my camera and take photos of anything that stood out to me.

As you will see and probably already know, my interests are eclectic and rust, decay and the irrational are as much interest to me as flowers, trees and cloud formations.  Beauty is in the detail regardless of how atrocious the detail may appear to others.

To tie in with the '39 Project', I will simply use 39 photos to illustrate my walk to work, although I will keep the full quota of photos for my own interest as they reveal as much about the photographer as they do about a wet London.

A weird blue reverse question mark in my road.

 

Do we ever truly focus on numbers and how they connote so much more than ownership?  The clearly damaged number resembles an archaic hammer banging an egg.  A metaphor for creation?

 

Something about the sudden outburst of Nature after months of stasis is thrilling to behold.  Everything lives.

 

 

Don't pee on cars that are climbing stairs.  See those signs that surround us?  How do we know what they mean?  They are like a secret language, taught to those who need to know.  Different types of knowledge have different audiences.

 

Quite a curious object to see on a pavement.  Part of a furry dice combo that can regularly be found hanging in people's cars.  A symbol of chance, opportunity and the randomness of life.

 

The ornamental marks that we add to the entrances to our homes as an invitation into our individual desires.  The desire to link to long distant art styles is also indicative of a generation that has become essentially stuck.

 

 

More to come.  A walk is by its nature a puncturing of time and space.  Photography capturing something of the moment.

 

 

Barry Watt - 27th April 2013