Head Space Daily Words...

At the moment, I'm working on the Isle of Dogs. It's a really interesting place. Firstly, you travel there on the DLR, which feels like some kind of visionary, futuristic mode of transport, as the driverless trains slice through the streets, on their raised train lines, passing over water ways, speeding by super modern, sci-fi buildings, constructed of steel and glass. The architecture in the area covers many eras, ranging from the few extremely old building that survived the war, through to modern contemporary buildings that have been built for banks and big business, as well other office blocks and residential properties, spanning all the other post war decades. What really stands out for me though, are all the huge, iron, alien like cranes, that tower over the docks and water ways, (see Daily Image.) These cranes were the power behind shifting the cargoes that ships were bringing in to the docks from all over the world. Hundreds, if not thousands of men would have been slogging their guts out on these docks. Hard as nails. Not like the media types (that's me) and the broker boys and girls, who now occupy the Isle of Dogs. We don't know we're born. It is a great thing that the cranes have been preserved in their position on the docks, over looking the constant and on going development, as the guys who worked there - performing daily hard labour - should never be forgotten.