Tag: Wonder
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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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Paintings of purring lines, zips and tongues cavort and play on an epic scale
ON A COLD AND SOGGY WINTER DAY we set out for London to visit the major retrospective of artist Bridget Riley. She is one of those painters that has to be seen in person. There is definitely a sense of being transformed by or through the colour relationships she explores in her paintings. The result…
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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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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…