Neon, Necropolis, Silence

[squirmelia]

Neon

The queue for neon grew longer and longer as I watched from above. I yearned for neon; the sky was grey. A quick glimpse of brightness, of astounding green lights, was caught as the door briefly opened for someone else who had been drawn in, despite the wait.

Necropolis

I walked on, firstly around display boards filled with brightly coloured manga and then to the former location of the London Necropolis Station. An ordinary-looking lion-adorned building stood at 121 Westminster Bridge Road, but apparently it was used as a terminus station for the transportation of the dead.

Silence

The collection of silences exhibition appealed to me - sitting silently in a room with the artist while the sound of silence is recorded. Although I missed the sessions, I've since been thinking about collecting silences also. The silence of neon, silent phonecalls to myself, the silence of closed down funfairs, silence caused by option paralysis.

Comments

[melston.livejournal.com]

Wonderfully evocative!

Necropolis

I never cease to be amazed at some of the bizarre, macabre things in London...

[p-a-n-d-o-r-a.livejournal.com]

I really like the idea of the collection of silences, i've often appreciated different silences and wondered if others do too

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

I could play Cage's 4'33" to her, but I wouldn't know what to do with the other 5 and a half minutes. Maybe adjust my dress and do it again, interpreting it in a different way?

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I am rather fond of Dan Flavin's work, in an odd way. It's strangely restful. I went to an exhibvituion of his at the Serpentine some years ago, which was particularly good.

I presume you've read "The necropolis railway"? A fiction set arounmd that very station, and highly evocative...

[remotepush.livejournal.com]

have you heard of reynol's "blank tapes" CD? the sound of blank cassettes. a kind of silence. of course from blank cassettes you then have the idea of EVP, the idea of voices within silences.

how often are you in london? i'm planning to come down for a weekend at the end of march, alan moore talking about art at the tate (assuming i can get everything sorted with my wooly and abstract head).