I went to bank for the studio today, and remembered to take a camera with me at long last!
I have been meaning to put up a site about the detail and details that I come across as a result of both working and living in the heart of a busy city like Glasgow. In Glasgow like any city around the world you are bombarded with detail, whether you notice it or not, and very often its the detail, rather than the grand architectural and cultural statements of a city, that impact on us as visitors and inhabitants.
I thought at first I would just do a photo diary, but as I started clicking images today, I found that I had something either to comment on, critise, praise. I was not creating art photography, but merely capturing what had come about at that click in time, but as I clicked, opinions formed.
So here we go!
Personally I would not have thought that such a bland place as a bank, would have been a starting place for a journey, but I had not waited long and it was a sunny day.
Journey 1
On leaving the bank, I did a right up Queen Street, crossed over and headed for GOMA, as I passed a little fashion boutique called STONS, I thought "that was a good image" but I had passed it (I will go back tomorrow). A quick tour round the ground floor in GOMA presented me with some familar and unfamilar images, it was a pleasant comfortable experience.
However I really was heading to the un-arti Bill's Tool Store over in the Barrowland area of the city. To set myself up for that impending retail experience, I decided to drop into the GOMA shop on the way out. I am sure that it does well, but it was a dissapointing experience. It seemed to carry as much stock in a very small space , as I was about to be confronted with, in the not so cavernous Bill's Tool Store . It was like walking into a pound shop, that sold, pile it high, art, but not at pound shop prices. It sold the usual eclectic mix of international art nicks and nacks interspersed with some token Glasgow stuff, well what I really noticed was Mackintosh bits and pieces. Most of the culture sector are highly vocal about toshienalia or Macincrap, however if its made in Glasgow, or even Scotland, and to a good standard, I can see little harm in it.
Any way!, left GOMA same way as I came in, thru the Saturday Night Fever entrance way. Don`t know why they went to the expense, at the time, of Nikki Saint Phalle, when they could have got Glasgow entertainments Entreprenur, Frank Lynch to do not only as good but better a job. He might even have done it for nothing if they had named a floor after him!
Just think The Frank Lynch Gallery at the Top of GOMA. Brings back memories of the old Green's days.. ahhh!
Any way, again, this is the first image that hits you as you go out the middle door, it`s right below Wellington's horses arse.
