Thursday, July 26, 2007
Dublin 8 - F*** the sheeps
This child lives around the corner to the left in a small colony of Travellers' caravans, utilising the wasteland resulting from the development to the South of the Liffey between the river and the canal.
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Yea are nothing to me (John Loves Maria) somehow seems to have more relevance to me than your title! Those bright colours in the drab surroundings are quite uplifting.
Who owns the model car?
Is the wall to hide the travellers?
Intriguing.
Intriguing indeed. The girl's red clothing pulls out all those other bits of color in an otherwise bleak landscape.
Rex - one could pick any bit of the graffiti! I chose the red/orange bit on the left. For a closer look at that corner go to:
http://www.johnelliseone.co.uk/gallery/photo.php?photo=927&exhibition=68&u=7814|3|...
The model car was there when the girl, who was loosely following us, got to this point. The wall is to keep people out of the construction site - the one to the left usefully hides the caravans. Not many yards behind me is the Liffey
The slope from right to left really adds to the transient nature of this shot. The girl in red is a little ray of sharp colour in an otherwise drab scene. The wall is enticing enough to want me to peak over the other side and those concrete blocks break up an otherwise monotonous grayness. The car is an added bonus. There is plenty in this shot and it comes together as a whole very well.
How fortunate the little car was green -- a perfect foil for all those different reds, -- the girl's clothing, the crane(?), the grafitti, the foreground, and even the child's hair. I don't think this would have worked so well had the sky been blue.
Lots to interest me here -- can look for a long time.
Yes - wasn't that car fortunately coloured: I knew that it needed to be in the photo but not to the extent that I saw later.
Thanks for comments.
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Who owns the model car?
Is the wall to hide the travellers?
Intriguing.
http://www.johnelliseone.co.uk/gallery/photo.php?photo=927&exhibition=68&u=7814|3|...
The model car was there when the girl, who was loosely following us, got to this point. The wall is to keep people out of the construction site - the one to the left usefully hides the caravans. Not many yards behind me is the Liffey
Lots to interest me here -- can look for a long time.
Thanks for comments.