Foggy Filibuster
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Page 32 from the catalogue for To There & Back Again - Catching The Spaces In Between. To order your copy click here
Pen & Ink On Paper 40cm x 30cm
DCR: That’s quite a Lowry-esque scene and composition; the fact that it’s slightly smudgy and blurry.
RP: I did that from the top of a bus.
DCR: Obviously you and I know it’s London Bridge, but there’s nothing inherent in it that speaks of London. it could be any commuter bridge in the world. In a sense, that’s one of the least specific drawings in this group.
RP: I don’t feel depressed by that drawing, because sometimes you can be by masses of faceless, nameless people.
DCR: That’s because you don’t have to commute every morning.
RP: I suppose I’m an outsider in that respect, romanticising what it would be like to walk to the city from London Bridge.
DCR: Maybe to empathise you should get up at six every morning for a month, commute to London Bridge and walk across it! and by the end of it, I think that drawing would be different. It would be called ‘Goodbye London Bridge’.
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