London Collage

Having just gone, for the second time, to the Joseph Cornell exhibit at the Royal Academy of the Arts on Friday night, I’m thinking about collage. Although Cornell was perhaps best known for his ‘shadow boxes’ (otherwise known as assemblage), more than even collage, I was also pleasantly surprised to see several of his films – his passion for collecting extended to film clips as artifacts.  Cool!   Anyway, this post is inspired by Cornell, or perhaps more likely: it gives me permission to assemble a series of seemingly unrelated images over the past week or so.

Ann Frank at the British Library (BL)

Fountain at the BL

Newton in the BL piazza by Eduardo Paolozzi (1995)

A fragment of Antony Gormely’s Planets (2002) , BL piazza

Reading with a ball and chain , BL lobby. Some days are like that.

Page 1, Penelope by artist Joe Tilson (1969), lobby of the BL . Some days are like that: yes!

Shakespeare, of course. Looking over the proceedings at the BL 500 years on …

Side street off Broadway Market, early Saturday evening

Broadway Market

Broadway Market, organic vegetables

Broadway Market

Window display, Broadway Market

Broadway Market meets London Fields. This week’s billboard and … invitation?

BBQ and beer in London Fields, early Saturday evening

Window display on Shaftesbury Ave, walking to the Royal Academy from the BL on Friday night.

Inside a gaming and comic book store on Shaftesbury Ave.

Tavistock Square, on my way to the Royal Academy – a wonderful discovery.

  

Another woman honored in Tavistock Square – a pioneering woman in medicine in the late 19th century/early 20th: Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake

And Mahatma Gandhi too.

Peace and love to all!