This is the fabric from my family’s bookcase, in a green version. It’s not in such good condition as the pink version, the background is yellowed with age and some squares where the dye has rotted the fabric, notably the red squares.
Month: December 2014
1950’s fabric
A friend gave me this for Christmas, happy nostalgic memories of a curtain we had over a bookcase in the family home, that was in a green colourway, I am off to look for it.
Selfie outside Birmingham New Street station
A new store is being built above the station and is being clad in highly polished steel panels. I can just about see myself with a red shopping bag, my face hidden by the camera.
The distorted reflections were marvellous, it’s a huge structure, not finished yet so there are unexpected sections showing the underlying structure.
Black and White
This week I took a photo every day that was about making images in black and white. It certainly concentrates the eye, looking for form, pattern and drama. We’re so used to seeing images that rely on colour to tell the story, working in black and white was quite a challenge, looking for subjects where colour would not add anything.
A shaft of sunlight in the stair well made a living theatre shadow-play as visitors walked up and down.
Fountains in the new Eastside City Park in Birmingham
A watercolour portrait of my uncle I made, inspired by a tiny black and white photo taken in the late 1930s.
The sad demise of a dead plane tree thought to have been more than 150 years old, I was lucky to pass by as the last branch was about to be cut. 
Steamy window
Steaming a pot of vegetables left the smeary window running with condensation and then the scene was lit up by the headlights of a passing car.
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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