Subject: Urban

There was some scaffolding on the roof of a block of flats, by the river, which attracted my attention. It included a frame to support a pulley mechanism, and a platform to receive the loads. I introduced the telephone engineer who was halfway up a telegraph pole on The Avenues street. I liked the string of lights that decorated a wall down near Trowse Newton. I also added couple more ladders, ‘borrowed’ from wherever, and changed the sky, which was originally overcast. I turned the lightbulbs ‘on’, in the computer, and had to extend the wires emanating from the pole, because of  the limit created by the original photo.

A bridge in Melbourne and a heater-skelter in a kids playground, (from opposite angles). I like the symmetry that it creates. When I put an extension on the title, be it an ‘a’ or 2, it’s because I have put the original through a filter to ‘pep’ it up, but still have the former image. The filter in this case is the Paint Daubs.

These steps lead up to Cromer Pier. I have copied some parts of the image, distorted and combined them, as you can see. The silver ‘wave’ is the seat of a public bench in the Castle Gardens, by Farmers Avenue. The rope was securing two exterior pipes on a building in Magdalen St. The result took quite a bit of experimenting and serendipity.

As I was cleaning my bathroom shower, I bunched the curtain out of the way, and rested it in an alcove, by the washbasin. I was stuck by the visual: it looked like a waterfall. With that image, I experimented using unrelated objects. The first bridge looked good and fitted. Then I tried another photograph of a different bridge….just as good! I hit upon the idea of joining the two (lateral thinking). The two pedestrian bridges are in Norwich spanning the river Wensum. The Novi Sad Friendship Bridge (left) and the Lady Julian Bridge. I like the composition, and the contrast it invoked.