The assignment started as a survey of the Wey Navigation and Basingstoke Canals, using a bicycle along the towpath. My approach was to identify different themes that described my experience of the canals - locks and weirs, boats, engineering, recreation, homes, reflections (in the water), nature (encroaching) and trash. My essay as submitted to the tutor used 1 image from each of these themes. He felt that it did not work as well as showing 8 images on one of the themes. Taking his advice, I picked 'Trash'. It reveals how little valued these relics of the Industrial Revolution are today.
Images
Railway bridge, Byfleet
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| An artist or a hooligan at work here? This noise means something to somebody but not much to most of us. |
Wall of bridge, Frimley Green
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| Dick was here |
Metal drums, Woking
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| A bright idea - an improvised raft - becomes a thoughtless one |
Supermarket pallet, Woking
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| Supermarket pallet holds lilies instead of, say, loaves of bread. Why? |
Plastic bag, Woking
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| Every little helps, except when fly-tipped into the canal |
Coke can, West Byfleet
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| 'I throw my rubbish into the canal because I can' |
Bridge over M25, New Haw
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| Does the graffiti improve or ruin the look of the bridge? |
Bridge, Woking
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| Never, it seems |
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