The workshop theme this month for the Online Guild of Weavers Spinners & Dyers is sketchbooks. Our first assignment was to select a photograph, any photograph, any source, and examine it for a couple of days. Now we have to say what we like about our chosen photo.
This is the photograph I chose. A photo I took some months ago of one of the approaches to the new DundrumTown Centre.
I sat in Starbucks this afternoon and thought about this photograph. Starbucks is away in the interior of the new Dundrum Town Centre here in Dublin. The new Centre is vast and my photo shows only one aspect of it – and it’s an archival aspect. This area used to be one of the approaches to the Centre. However, several months ago this approach was sealed off and there has been a lot of construction activity going on behind the hoardings. Secret construction activity as far as the general public is concerned. What will be revealed when the hoardings come down??
My thoughts about the photo as I sipped my coffee
1. the photo is mine and I can do what I want with it – crop it, enlarge it, reduce it, etc.
2. I know the location
3. it’s an archival photo in our changing urban scene – this area is now all construction material and machines and hoardings – what will it look like when the barriers come down?? – will that lovely stone cottage on the left still be there?
4. in the photo I like the clean lines, the reflections, the pop art, the sense of depth, the sense of height
5. I like the boldness of it all – this is a multi-purpose area – a Bold New Town Centre cum Shopping Mall
I’m not sure where all this analysis is going to lead to in our workshop but here is another photo showing some of the activity going on in this area.
not a very good photo of the barriers – I’ll try to find a better one.
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