Tag: Psychogeography
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Oscillating scrawl dance to the sound of the city, transforming surfaces into a beautiful opera of tagging, drips, daubs, overspray and movement
RISING OUT THE DARKNESS OF LIVERPOOL STREET STATION we ascend into a pandemic stricken City of London – three days after (MOST) legal limits on social contact were removed; this was July 2021, the second summer of fear and lies. Bishopgate was like a dream (NO PEOPLE) slash post-apocalyptic nightmare (SCARED PEOPLE), masked, double-masked and…
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Sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad… but mostly, you just make me mad, baby, you just make me mad
THE OPENING LINES TO PALE BLUE EYES, written by Lou Reed and recorded by the Velvet Underground has become a personal and abstract expression for a feeling I have been experiencing lately. To be specific, the feeling happens when walking in my neighbourhood, city and in nature. The sadness doesn’t come from lost love as…
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Pavements gleam with a kaleidoscope of colourful pollution
WHY ARE THESE IMAGES INTOXICATING TO LOOK AT — is it because there are both beauty and destruction all in one spectacle? The blends found in these expanses of colour are fascinating to stare into, the way they twist and wave into a glowing pattern is like a tractor beam of sorts. The transformation is…
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Positive affirmations and street art tribute–acts perform against a psychedelic explosion of colour
STUMBLING OUT THE DARK CAVE OF LIVERPOOL Street Station on to a bright sunny Bishopgate we head east for Commercial Road and immediately run into Minty, a SKELETOR hopelessly in love with his closest friend: Frida. She is suffering from bad dreams of Brexit and family disagreements about the socialist agenda. The walls call out our soon to be…
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Through walking, looking and enjoying purposeless movement we discover the ecstacy of motion
THINK ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY TO WORK, OR class from home each day, how far do you stray from a well trodden path slash route? With the advent of hand-held illuminated devices (location services willingly enabled mapping your position on the earth) we are, sheepishly some might say, directed and overseen by the shadow of humanity.…
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Stay-at-home order arrives with a clean sharpened hue of blue and 1970s yellow ochre tones
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LIVING MEMORY, (AT LEAST OURS) the people of the UK gathered around a simple set of collective principles to make change happen “Stay home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives”. The lockdown of the UK was announced on 23 March 2020 by the Prime Minister with measures to mitigate the spread…