Pigeons and Pavements

For our first project at Chelsea we were given the Rough Guide project, a task involving different parts of London, we were split into groups and had to make a 'Rough guide' to London totally in pictures, in our groups we were each given a specific area we had to focus on, and individually we focused on what we wished.

My groups area was Piccadilly circus, Bond street and the surrounding streets. The main things that stuck out to me were the amount of pigeons literally everywhere and the dark dampness of grey paved streets. which then led me onto the traffic lights and pedestrian crosses, and the fact that nobody apart from a select few actually waited for the little green man to cross the road! Despite the busy traffic and busses driving past! Its always an urgency in London, everywhere you go, a busy hussle and bustle to get anywhere, people rushing and not taking the time to take anything in around them.

So to me, the three most common things in London are the pigeons,pavements and the little red man! I tried to document these as much as i could when visiting these areas, taking photographs, collecting litter from the paved walk ways and watching the day go by. 

 

My page in the guide is quite abstract but also quite easy to look at, a distorted photograph with a red spray paint mark on, different on each separate one. 

I enjoyed doing this mini project, it gave me time to explore London and we quite experimental with what i was doing.