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sorry if I've sent this twice! But it didn't seem to work the first time round!

I love that image of the tree 'struggling to reach the sun' in an urban jungle, 'the rose that grew from the concrete' (hopefully one day me, and others to!) the colour and nature of the image is very 'Manchester'

The 'Triptych' works beautifully as a portrait of Manchester and positioned as such the main points of interest create a nice arc, telling a sort of story of modern Manchester (or at least the leading of the eye to the centre image certainly reminded me of being trapped in Manchester during the riots!)

hope all is well Marc!

Liam.

September 21, 2012 at 3:23 PM

Marc said…

Ah many thanks Liam, always good to hear from you and your musings are very accurate! The work I put on the blog is often quite intuitive and quickly produced and it's only when I stand back and look that I can see some meaning in it. I think I'm a bit disappointed in Manchester at the moment and I guess subconsciously I'm not showing it in a very flattering light. This time of year always gets me down a bit too, much prefer going towards warmer, sunnier weather than the other way around!

Hope all is good with you, ever thought about something curatorial as a career direction?

Marc

September 21, 2012 at 5:31 PM

Liam Lee said…

Yes everything is good thanks, just started back at uni!

And no I haven't, I wouldn't even know where to begin with curatorial work or exactly what it would entail! haha for now I'm just concentrating on animation and design, the hardest thing for me at the moment is getting what I see in my head and on paper into a digital format, it takes so long, I'm "happy" with my drawing ability but sometimes translating that into a finished polished digital format is a lengthy and frustrating process, but it's something I need to master especially in this day and age.

October 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM

A Lovely Pair of Pins

I knew the expression 'pins' referring to legs but had to Google what the Cockney rhyming slang comes from. It looks like 'pins & pegs', but there are some great alternatives like 'bacon & eggs' and 'dolly pegs'. I think I might start trying to incorporate more Cockney into my everyday speak, I do have London roots but they are more South (Saff) London than East London, where I think it originates. Anyway this is all to illustrate a new picture that sits quite neatly with an older picture. So brogues, legs and a sea view from my two main muses. This might be turning into a set... Oh by the way the top view is Morecambe Bay and the lower image is from The Wirral looking across towards Wales. The North West of England is a beautiful place, with some stylish residents.

Liverpool Periphery

L1 City Centre L2 City Centre L3 City Centre, Everton, Vauxhall L4 Anfield, Kirkdale, Walton L5 Anfield, Everton, Kirkdale, Vauxhall L6 Anfield, City Centre, Everton, Fairfield, Kensington, Tuebrook L7 City Centre, Edge Hill, Fairfield, Kensington L8 City Centre, Dingle Toxteth L9 Aintree, Fazakerley, Orrell Park, Walton L10 Aintree Village, Fazakerley L11 Croxteth, Clubmoor, Gillmoss, Norris Green

Hold Your Hair In Deep Devotion

At last after a week of being indoors, I walked into the light! I went solo and had a photography day in Liverpool, just what the doctor ordered, as they say. I'm a bit out of words at the moment and was going to include a Philip Larkin poem, but I've been thinking that Alex Turner is my modern day poet hero and this is my favourite track on AM, tucked away at the end. He's in his twenties and yet the words suggest a time before he was born, filling my head with images and memories. I've included a link to the track if you want to listen to The Arctic Monkey doing their thing whilst taking in my pictures... UPDATE Well since writing the above it has been pointed out to me that the song is actually based on a poem by John Cooper Clarke, which makes sense of the time frame (being written in the early Eighties) and the fact that I responded to the lyrics like a poem. Apparently Alex Turner first heard it read by his English teacher whilst at school. So mayb

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