Strutting

Strutting

The juxtaposition of London’s Tate Modern and the new Millennium Bridge is for me very welcome – but I wanted to push it further. I am also interested in the links between form and function, the structural and organic – who is to say what is considered “beautiful”, or even beyond a certain point, “alive”?

A BRIEF BESTIARY

To carry the child into adult life
Is good? I say it is not,
To carry the child into adult life
Is to be handicapped.

- Stevie Smith

There are the scientists. They know how to play.
There are the children, who know how to play and how to weep.
There are artists, who play and who purport to weep.
There are misfits, who yearn to play and weep.
And, last of all, come the decent grown-ups
Who have forgotten how to do either.
If, indeed, they ever found out.

Why have we killed the child inside?
Since it is better (we suppose) to forfeit joy than to
Admit the possibility of failure. Better to do nothing
Than to risk a humiliation of mistakes. Instead
We’ll tilt at windmills; and bind our bones with iron
Against the breeze.

Stephen Jackson

January 2005

Strutting belongs to the following groups:

Architectural Photography and Travel and Adventure Available for sale as

Greeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints