Choke on capitalism
All the pretty defaced white people and their lifestyle aspirations #surfacejustice
Burberry surface
Branded construction site hoarding in London’s New Bond Street.
The hoarding shields the refurbishment works on Burberry’s flagship store, but more importantly it dresses …
This one will have to be removed
This one will have to be removed as it would be problematic permissions-wise on a number of fronts (Fred Flintstone, Halifax logo and Halifax ad).
- this is what my book editor said to me in an email just the other week.
The publisher must of course…
Trompe l’oeil architecture
Three of the windows on this facade are illusions ✨
I believe I took this in Paris but these painted architectural elements are quite common in Italy, completing architectural symmetries and proportions where the building
Each layer, a presence
This is an archive
A space of significance
A setting-together of multiplicities
No pissing
Attempts to regulate pissing in public through signage and built structures are wonderfully diverse in different cultures. These signs are indexes - so they tell us something about their environment. They are also a great hook for realising how every sign, mark, and bit of writing in urban space tells us something about…
Camouflage
It is over 10 years since I took this photo and it remains a personal favourite. Life blending into walls. Graffiti capturing authority. Blending together while upholding different values.
Important directions
Improvised authorised spray-painted hand-written temporary directional sign to the only place that matters.
Sisters pas cis-terfs
Feminist posters going strong in Bordeaux 2022. I believe these are linked to the Collages Féminicides groups, speaking truth…
Red phone boxes
I always found it brilliant how many display networks are connected to public phone boxes, and how they form these public interiors, sheltered from the elements yet still visible….
Surface commons
These types of surfaces are interesting because they display multiple voices and intentions simultaneously.
The co-existence of these intentions is a form of spatial justice.
