The traffic on the roads and the motion of the cars and other vehicles made such a huge sound. exhausts of large vehicles and buses. tooting between cars, like a language. the hum of engines and pedals and metal moving on tarmac and concrete around and around. A group of sounds really, that was multi layered and out of time. The more unrehearsed sound there was, the more it all fitted together. 3 car horns won't sound the same as 100.
The roundabout was something to consider. The movement of cars around it, bound by rules of the road and obstacles that enforce it. Cars and bikes go round and leave and another car joins and leaves and goes round again and all over again. Fading in and out. joining then departing. coming and going.
People walking and biking past me. legs striding and strutting and pedaling. up and down stairs. going somewhere.
London, city, mass of people and cars all needing to go places, go to places fast. wheels turning, people pedaling, petrol, fuel, the necessity to be somewhere else then where you already are and the need to be there now. Movement. Constant. Repeating. Fast. Now. Immediacy.
Secondly today, I sat in a cafe in central london before work with my sketchbook and tried to draw my first impressions of movement indoors in the busy environment of a cafe. This ended up mostly being the study of people and movement.
doing, going, working, food as fuel to keep moving, noise, chatter, laughter, voices, coffee/caffeine fuel.
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