Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Water Colour Sketch of Chapel Market and the Holloway Road: July 13th 2011

At the Job centre on B---- Road near the Angel an old man asks a tracksuited teenager for a fag. The boy says no. Then changes his mind.

A man: Mid 20s (difficult to tell with the English working class, could be mid 40s) screams abuse into a mobile phone. He then moves as if to smash the phone against a wall but doesn't. We are walking through a tunnel of scaffolding on the Holloway road when this happens.

An estate agent - late teens. He is trying to grow a mustache.

An African woman screams into a phone on Upper Street. Unknown African language. Her aggression, as with the man earlier, is extremely boring.

At the Hope Workers Cafe: Wooden tables - dark polished. Arsenal banners. Polish staff. All builders and baked beans. Also water colours of local area.

Packington street has been closed off. Metal fences block it at both ends.

A cat lies asleep on a step leading to the blue front door of an apartment building. He is curled loaf-like, head drooped, fur dirty-white.    

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