Showing posts with label Scott Walker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scott Walker. Show all posts

Sunday, September 15, 2019

"HAS ABSENCE EVER SOUNDED SO ELOQUENT, SO SAD?" Beats me.

There are all kinds of good reasons to go walking in Sudbury, in Suffolk.  The water meadows: 


The wildlife:


The achingly quaint archtecture, including silk weavers’ houses.



There are pill boxes – and I’m not sure if that mushroom-shped thing is a warning against nuclear attack, or an indication that some shrooming has been going in:


There are many passion fruits:



and VW campers, at least one of them for sale (18 grand seems to be about the going rate)


It may all seem a little bucolic, a little green and pleasant, but there's something that might make the journey to Sudbury a different proposition, if you’re a fan of Guy Debord’s psychogeography, 


or of Scott Wallker’s later work,


is this house sign:



You couldn’t make it up.  You don’t have to.