View from the Blue Bridge, St. James Park, London

My artist statement for Architecture Speaks in Black and White included this passage:

“Architecture has much to say about many aspects of human existence.  Structures have voice.  Much as the great thinkers and philosophers throughout time have struggled with universal human concerns like truth, beauty, and spirituality or logic and metaphysics, so have architects throughout time worked to interpret these human concerns through their use of light, space, and form.  All of this has been, and is, done within the context of a time and place that carries with it particular cultural, political, and economic conditions and particular climactic and geographic conditions.”

The sentiments expressed in this passage resonated strongly during my visit to England during the summer of 2011. England is a land of kings and queens and fairy tales! Camelot, Robin Hood, the Sherwood Forest, Hobbits, the Shire, Narnia, Hogwarts … what is it about England and its people that so stimulates imagination? I am interested in your thoughts on this subject.

What I do know, however, is that Architecture in England does, indeed, speak! With this blog posting I am introducing my project Architecture Speaks in Black and White: England. The first of photograph from this project to be posted on my website, View from the Blue Bridge, St. James Park, London, shows a view looking toward Whitehall. More photographs from this project will be revealed over time.

A 12 inch by 18 inch print of this photograph will be exhibited for the first time on Saturday, June 9, 2012, between noon and 5:00 at the Corridor Gallery in downtown Casper, Wyoming. The print is number 1 of 10. June 9th is a 2nd Saturday. The Corridor Gallery is having a 2nd Saturday Press each month through September. Stop in to say hi and meet some of the Corridor member artists!

Click on this link to see a large version of the photograph: View from the Blue Bridge. (Click the plus sign in the top right corner of the photograph for the large veiw).