Surface musings/ A curatorial note

The most exciting urban surfaces are often the seemingly unremarkable ones, where nothing visually spectacular or agreeable is going on - or where there is little going on to speak of.

Choosing photos for this exercise of "one wall a day" can sometimes be tricky because of the balance I need to strike between evoking the magnetism I see in unremarkable surfaces, and showing attractive enough examples to generate that interest.

I take pleasure and satisfaction from the aesthetic incoherence of this series of photos, because I believe that reflects the aspects of urban surfaces (almost) everywhere. And not being too palatable is also a political stance - this is one of the main lessons cities teach us.

So is being cute.