Tuesday 28 June 2011
Friday 24 June 2011
Spiritual shopping in Brixton
It claims to be ‘the real-true spiritual shop… your last spiritual shop’. On the door a notice welcomes you ‘to come in and seek help from a spiritual advisor’. Above the door a sign warns: ‘Holy Ghost Zone Devil Keep Off.’ All of this should be consoling, but it worries me. I mean, if the last spiritual shop can’t provide what you need, then what?
Friday 17 June 2011
Discarded art
This has a distinctly twisted nightmare thing going for it… clawed feet, a horned head, random bosoms, a tail, perhaps two, and all of it in a salacious pink. Perhaps it was inspired by Dali’s sofa, designed as an homage to Mae West’s lips. The artwork was abandoned in Peckham: heaven knows why.
Thursday 2 June 2011
Popcorn Peckham
Friday evening and I was on a bus -- top deck -- when I took this photo in Peckham. Peckham and popcorn go together quite well. Frivolous and sticky and 50 pence only! I can imagine the woman reaching home, tipping the popcorn into a bowl and her kids enjoying it as they watch TV, a treat at the end of another week at school.
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