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November 22, 2010
The alley is a marker for what is not meant to be seen aesthetically. It is a designated space for the discarded, for refuse; a non-place. It is a place of decay of the residue of what is used and then discarded.
If this urban space of refuse is a space of dissonance for us, then it is space of the obscene; a space for the unwanted, such as needles, street art and graffiti. They are places where not even drunks lie down to sleep the booze off.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, red drum, Adelaide CBD, 2010
The alleyway is a place where the body recoils from the grime and dirt, as well as the stench of human vomit and urine amidst the decaying refuse. It is here that we have an acute sense of our body in space that provides such a different perspective to that of instrumental reason in our everyday life in the marketplace.
We realize the body is in the world, that this embodiment is a given of experience, and that it is the body that is the bearer of all our sensations that feels its way through the alleyway.
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Gary,
I like what you have written about this photo. maybe you should consider incorporating words into some of your photos to give your art greater dimension.