Wednesday 28 April 2010

Inspired Image


You can find out why this photograph inspires me at Things We Make. Thanks Amy for asking me to take part.

7 comments:

  1. Amy, Rodinsky's Room is one of the most extraordinary books I've read. We have a special link with Spitalfields because my partner's great-uncle was a tailor, living in the area who used to take us walking around the City with psycho-geography stories and then feed us vege sausages in his living room which had six TVs in the corner and numerous black and white photos of the weddings of his 12 brothers and sisters balanced on sideboards. I am so happy to find this photo, I've never seen colour images of the Room. Thanks, Susanna.

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  2. It is a wonderful book. Good to find a fellow fan! Your partner's great uncle's walks sound amazing. I love that sort of thing. I used to volunteer at the museum where the Room was and never got tired of hearing all the stories people told me.

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  3. I can imagine it must have been such a rich experience to volunteer there. It's quite an extraordinary area. All those memories, forgotten, untold and sometimes hidden stories. The image of Rodinsky's Room is tragic and yet hopeful because we have it, hopeful in the very fact that it exists because she did find him and began to unravel his story.

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  4. Yes, I feel that the image is tragic and hopeful too. I think because Rodinsky was laid to rest by Lichtenstein. It's an amazing story.
    I am obsessed by forgotten and hidden stories. Especially by how places can tell stories. It sounds we are on the same wavelength.

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  5. I like your imaginative blog. I love the hidden stories behind art work too, although I don't know much about art itself.

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  6. Yes, I love the hidden stories too. I find stories everywhere!

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  7. How amazing - and what a story!!!

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