NOVEMBER 2019 THIS week's PICTURE

BBC Building, Leicester: photo by Malcolm Aslett

This building for BBC Television in the UK is tucked away in a relatively quiet street in that oddly inorganic city center of Leicester. A modern building with an office cum buisiness look to it. Neither grand nor humble. A set of aluminium tables and chairs parked outside for folk who might want to sit and eat lunch and have passers by wonder why they were sitting having lunch there.

The actual shape of the building has been distorted out of recognition because of the viewpoint as well as the original shape being one that plays with itself a bit. There are already different materials of brick, glass, tile, plaster, wood that break up the parts. The building itself is hard to read and now so is the photograph...

The building and the picture don't quite make sense, don't quite make a statement. That's why I put on that umbrous cast to it. I felt it need to have something happen to it. I've treated it rather brutally, I fear, but it wasn't as if it didn't have it coming. Now the lights that shone in the daylight seem to be night lights. The gritty ground looks as if it has survived some hard traffic. The light touching the top right now has a symbolic effect, I feel. As if something better is about to happen.

A lot of photographs went into it, but you couldn't tell it from this version.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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