Ugly London, Beautiful
Look up to the sky
I embark with you on a walk through London. We’ve done this many times before, and you think this is the best way to explore the city. Walking it up and down, trying to map it out with your feet rather than through your phone. Some places are dingy. Some you would rather not have gone to. Some are beautiful and you’ve never heard of them before, and you feel like you’ve discovered something new.
I take you with me to where the skyscrapers live, and I invite you to look up. Some hate these beasts in the sky, some think they mar the beauty of those historical facades. That they don’t match up. That they clash horrendously.
I think that they bring the sky down to the ground. On a cloudy day you might disagree with me, and really, this is London. Most days are cloudy. I am mostly wrong. But. But, I say. When the skies are bright, when fluffs of white dot a blue landscape, the mirror down on you and vanish the building of glass before your eyes. Their sharp edges cut through and fracture your view between man-made and reality.
It’s all about how you see things. It’s all about appreciating the beauty in the things that you might not like, might even find ugly. I embark with you a walk through London. Some places are dingy, but they have lived through so many hundreds living and walking and breathing along and through them. Everything tells a story, and look hard enough, you’ll find a spark of beauty where others couldn’t.
Take a photo, and you’ll make art. Take enough, and you recreate your reality. A challenge from me to you: take the photo not only when something is pretty. Those are the easy photos to take. Those are the photos that people have seen many times before. Take a photo of something you find ugly, and try to find its character. Try to take a beautiful picture. Do this enough, and no matter the walk, no matter the state of the neighbourhood you’re in, you’ll find something enchanting.
Rewire your brain to see life as art.
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