Photoblog and image gallery
Nearby buildings and late afternoon traffic reflected in Poured Lines, the painting by Ian Davenport under the railway bridge leading into Blackfriars Station close to Tate Modern. The painting is the length of 5 London buses (not of the bendy variety) and consists of straight lines in 300 different colours.
Not to be confused with the wonderful Yoko Ono number Walking On Thin Ice, the title of this photo of the week refers to my favourite entry at the 3rd annual London Ice Sculpting Festival at Canary Wharf. I like the “wall of ice” effect of this entry by Hungary. Maybe ice walls could become the new “living walls” replacing those popular architectural features where plants are stuck on a wall to die.
It has to be said I am a plane person. I don’t know why. My earliest memory of plane spotting as a child was running into the back yard when I heard the flying doctor coming into land at the local aerodrome about half a mile away. Last week I saw the installation Harrier and Jaguar by Fiona Banner at the Tate Britain. I preferred the shiny Jaguar.