My reflections this week on the poem Invictus, and what images have come to mind outside of the poem, have lead me to the thoughts of being entrapped within a squalid prison, images of rats entering the prison cell and my research on rats in trenches from the first world war...
I'm in a frame of mind right now that takes me to thoughts of rats and where to find them... In big cities?... I wondered how a view of London might be represented with an alternative angle of perspective... So I found a couple of photos I took last year while I had been working in the city, while I was staying in the St Pauls area last year, and started doodling with a sketch...
I allowed my mind to wander, I started a drawing of the street behind the ClubQuarters Hotel where I often stayed during the past few years. The reflections on the wet paving was interesting.
I re-rendered my sketch into an acrylic....
An interesting excursion, ....the paved area gave me time to think further and spawned an idea, the idea of aspect and perspective. What would a "Rat's-Eye" perspective be?
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