Sometimes… Gorillas

Not often, but some days, you’re walking along and a selection of painted Gorilla statues that you last saw in your hometown are arranged outside the mayor of London’s office. It’s just what happens.

City Hall. London. Sep 2011.

This Happened!

Thank you guys, something of a tiny milestone. Here’s a wee bonus!

 

Kyoto. Autumn 2007.

Heygate Tales

I took a friend to Heygate not so long back, the first time I’d been there since I posted this several months ago.

It’s changed, all the buildings have been sealed off now. The graffiti I pictured will be seen by no-one now until it gets blown to dust sometime in the next few years.

But something new has arrived. The local community have started using the open spaces of Heygate to grow vegetables, people have cleared away the junk and made a new space for creating, not for dwelling in destruction. More of that another time. Because I found something on this visit that I had missed before. On a small interior block, someone has scribbled messages on the walls, extracts from a narrative on the residents who once lived here.

 

The cynic in me wondered if they were true. If they are then where did they come from, if not then who would make them up?

Not for me to comment, these authors went for brevity, and the tiny extracts scrawled on breaking walls speak well enough for themselves. Go see them, while the buildings still stand.

Heygate. July 2011.