Cities and Names
"How they dance in the courtyard
Sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember
Some dance to forget..."
The Eagles, Hotel California
Vandalised telephone box, England
A hand embroidered shawl hanging in the Altneuschul, situated in Josefov, Prague.
Europe's oldest active synagogue.
“Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented, and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.” Queen Elizabeth II, England
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (a German-American Architect) and opened in 1968.
Renovated by David Chipperfield (an English Architect working in Germany) and reopened in 2021
Offerte per mantenimento, Luke. Exit and shadow
(Offers for Maintenance)
Florence, Italy
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Cities and Desire
Holiday Hotel, Blackpool, England
“It was Grandfather's watch and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for
"Cathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping.
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why."
Paul Simon, America
The Fox and the Snowflake, Window display Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England
"I'm here, where are you?" Text, Berlin, Germany
A Corporate Landscape, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England
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Cities and Eyes
I sense a threshold: Light to silence, silence to light…
Louis Kahn
I will love you forever...
National Memorial on Vítkov Hill, Prague, Czechia
Porosity #1
Preston, Lancashire
Porosity #2
Preston, Lancashire
A White Christmas
Cities and Movement
"...Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;"
WH Auden, September 1939
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist, 1907-1977
Fred: I like to remember things my own way.
Detective: What do you mean by that?
Fred: How I remember them. Not necessarily the way they happened.
Lost Highway. David Lynch, 1997
Night border
Beach, Night and Photographic Flash
River's edge, Night and Photographic Flash
Cities and Memory
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.
Louise Bourgeois
A Fortress, Warwickshire
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast,
and slow, asleep."
Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
Shoe Memorial
Derby, England
"Time passes... Listen, Time passes...
Come closer now."
Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
“I had a little bird, its name was Enza.
I opened the window and in – flu – enza.”
Children’s skipping song 1918
Folded Cities
Somewhere in the folds of darkness the light reached you.
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:
"Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
Johnson repeated the lines by Rudyard Kipling taught at school in Eaton under his breath."
Newspaper Article describing Boris Johnson visiting the Shwedagon
Adult footprints in a child's sandpit.
Matlock, Derbyshire
Room Divider, spectator.
Royal Academy Gallery, London
Christmas Lights
Ornamental Hedges, Elvaston Castle, Derby
Framed Cities
Window
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
Sleepless.
Hotel room, Berlin, Germany
Windows
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
Shelter.
Blackpool, Lancashire.
Altonaer Straße 4–14, Hansaviertel, Berlin
by Oscar Niemeyer,
Trading Cities
"Stop staring at me like I'm some piece of meat."
Mcdonalds Advert text.
"Trailers for sale or rent,
rooms to let fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets.
I ain't got no cigarettes.
Ah but, two hours of pushin' broom buys an eight by twelve four-bit room.
I'm a man of means by no means,
king of the road..."
Roger Miller King of the Road 1964
Welcome
Prague, Czechia
Save me...
Returnable bottle. Hamburg, Germany
Booze + News, Tree, No Parking.
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
Thin Cities
Thin Smile.
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Edge Light
Florence, Italy
Window and Shadow
Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
Morning Light, Chalk Family.
Derby
Stray Light and Shadow
Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
Beer bottle, Security Fence and Church
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
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Continuous Cities
Progress, Dusk, Car Park
Derby
Horizon, Field.
Wales
Disorder
Order
River Severn, Bridge.
Severn Beach, South Gloucestershire
Hidden Cities
An Imagined Seascape.
Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
An Imagined Landscape.
Rear of Traffic Sign, Wales.
Sculptural Space.
Berlin, Germany
Mirrored Light
Paranoiac Space.
Wales
Reflection.
Plymouth, Devon
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