Saturday 8 March 2008
Wednesday 5 March 2008
Urban Spaces
I was suddenly struck with some creativity today while I was down to the city centre. Since I moved further from the city centre and has lived more rural for some time now I seemed to have change my opinion of the city. One time it was my dream to live inside the city core, to be part of the pulsating urban life that never seems to sleep.
But that change somehow. Maybe my dreams are changing. Maybe the city is changing. Maybe I'm changing. I don't see the city centre as I used to. There is too many people, too many cars. There is a constant noice. There is garbage and beggars. Smoking children and bitter elders. My heart is beating faster, my puls is rushing. I only want to go home. To were it is quiet. Where I can relax. I'm swetting and my head hurts. It too strict here, to organized. Its a machine.
But then I rememberd what an earlier art professor to me some years back. He said that creativity needs a strict and regulated enviroment to flourish. Air to breath in for humans. It's essensial. And its true. It's why grafitti is a typically urban thing.
While I was thinking this my own creativity bloomed. Like the springtime we are entering. I saw the city differently, no more calmer than before but now I could see the beauty in the urban environment around me. I took out my mobile phone and started to capture some of the beautiful urban spaces that I suddenly found myself in. This is the result:
But that change somehow. Maybe my dreams are changing. Maybe the city is changing. Maybe I'm changing. I don't see the city centre as I used to. There is too many people, too many cars. There is a constant noice. There is garbage and beggars. Smoking children and bitter elders. My heart is beating faster, my puls is rushing. I only want to go home. To were it is quiet. Where I can relax. I'm swetting and my head hurts. It too strict here, to organized. Its a machine.
But then I rememberd what an earlier art professor to me some years back. He said that creativity needs a strict and regulated enviroment to flourish. Air to breath in for humans. It's essensial. And its true. It's why grafitti is a typically urban thing.
While I was thinking this my own creativity bloomed. Like the springtime we are entering. I saw the city differently, no more calmer than before but now I could see the beauty in the urban environment around me. I took out my mobile phone and started to capture some of the beautiful urban spaces that I suddenly found myself in. This is the result:
Saturday 1 March 2008
Simply love his cartoons!
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