All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY; LONDON CALLING

13/03/201912/03/2019 / deuxiemepeau / 16 Comments

16 thoughts on “WORDLESS WEDNESDAY; LONDON CALLING”

Ms. Liz

13/03/2019 at 22:51

Nice mix of different photos Dami! I like goats but got a surprise to see a goat prominently displayed in London.. what’s that about?

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- deuxiemepeau
  
  14/03/2019 at 13:11
  
  Hehehe, I Goat is a sculpture from Spitalfields market designed by Kenny Hunter. He’s normally bright white and independent but I caught him on a dark day in December a few years ago during a inspiration trip to London with some co workers when I was living in Amsterdam. He is cute
  
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  - Ms. Liz
    
    14/03/2019 at 20:38
    
    “She” Dami.. she’s got an udder !!!
Dorinda Duclos

14/03/2019 at 03:07

Lovely photos, Damian! 🙂

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- deuxiemepeau
  
  14/03/2019 at 13:12
  
  Thank you Dorinda, it was fun to look back at my London life which seems like a lifetime ago, and I think it was!!!
  
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  - Dorinda Duclos
    
    14/03/2019 at 18:23
    
    As long as you have find memories and photos to go with it!!
Ms. Liz

14/03/2019 at 05:01

We’ve looked up about the goat since my earlier comment.. great statue!

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- deuxiemepeau
  
  14/03/2019 at 13:13
  
  oh, I am now just catching up, internet was not working properly for me yesterday, maybe it was all the rain!
  
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nigel64

14/03/2019 at 05:55

Wonderful images. The forth from last seems very dystopian, and I love the centurion sculpture too (but where is it), it’s so wonderfully pared back, and the stonework behind introduces a kind of shifting pixel effect.

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- deuxiemepeau
  
  14/03/2019 at 13:29
  
  Thanks Nigel, the sleek and stark centurion is at Southwark Cathedral which you can see in the background, there is another shot of the church a few pictures above this one with cloud,s trees and the impressive rose window of the cathedral. He might be one of the guardians of the church. The dystopian skyline is from the east side of London, I think, maybe around the Dalston area when it was just becoming the cool place to be. We had been visiting the LNCC, the coolest design concept store I had ever seen, it was like clothing shopping on the starship enterprise!
  
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  - nigel64
    
    14/03/2019 at 21:40
    
    Thanks Dami, I just had a hunt around and found –
    a blog on London sculptures, the author actually tries to find out who designed\built the item and what the object’s made from (aluminium+GRP). I’ve heard of this process but never seen it.
  - deuxiemepeau
    
    15/03/2019 at 08:15
    
    So happy you found this, I had a vague idea where this picture was taken (the picture is about 15 years old) but did have to double check but couldn’t really see any info on the statue itself!
    Sending you all best wishes, watching the news and so shocked this morning.
  - nigel64
    
    15/03/2019 at 09:03
    
    Thanks Dami, it is horrifying and very unsettling (altho’ not surprising unfortunately as NZ is a racist place).
    
    Incidentally, I saw your reply to Liz re the folded shirt. One of the most inspiring landscape architects on my journey has been
    Kathryn Gustafson who commences many of her landscape designs by draping cloth to find forms.
    
    One of her gardens is the former Paris Shell HQ, and another at Terrasson in the Dordogne, the garden I’d most like to see, preferably in a wind, and at night as it has bells set in the trees.
  - deuxiemepeau
    
    17/03/2019 at 21:53
    
    Thanks for this Nigel, I will defiantly check her out. Hope you are both recovered from your colds. Sending you some Irish saint Patrick’s day greetings. ☘️
merrildsmith

14/03/2019 at 12:09

I love how your series in various cities capture the beauty and whimsy in each of them, as well as the unique character of each. So many wonderful images here–love the close up of Big Ben, the street art, that display of old lanterns on the wall, the path between the daffodils. . .ok, I guess pretty much everything. 🙂

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- deuxiemepeau
  
  14/03/2019 at 13:33
  
  Thanks Merril, It’s so much fun looking back through these memories of what feels like other lives. The path between the daffs is from Holland Park which became my running track during my last few years in the city and I loved it here, not just because I got to live in the ROYAL Borough of Kensington! The lamps was from a restaurant somewhere in East London.
  
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