{"id":1480,"date":"2012-07-26T10:07:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:25:01","slug":"meine-grafitti-shoreditch-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"(M)eine Grafitti Shoreditch Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Graffiti<\/a>
The Princess of Shoreditch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s a slightly cheesy caption for the above photo but those in the know will also recognise it as the name of a pub near Old Street, on the edge of Shoreditch and the place I ended up with the Love Art London group after the graffiti tour.<\/p>\n

And even though I took it myself, I have to say I love the above photograph. It perfectly sums up the sense of place and the spirit of Shoreditch that I try to capture in part of the novel.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the most brilliant quality photograph (I took it with my phone), neither is it as well composed as it could be \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but the spontaneity of the moment is what makes it.
\nThey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a little hard to spot at first but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bride and groom on the right of the picture, being posed by their wedding photographer. And rather than a verdant churchyard they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve chosen to use Ben Eine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s colourful mural on Ebor Street in Shoreditch. (There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a more sombre grey and black Eine work on the opposite side of the street on the Londonewcastle building that hosted the Catlin prize \u00e2\u20ac\u201c see previous post.)<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d come across the wedding party by chance on a Saturday afternoon. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been to visit Boxpark \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the container mall shopping centre by Shoreditch High Street overground station. I was on my way back from a very pleasant Vietnamese meal (recommended by Bren Gosling) at a place at the end of the Kingsland Road with some of our ex-City writers after we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had a Saturday morning workshopping session. Afterwards I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d decided to have another wander around Shoreditch and see if any of the graffiti I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d seen a week previously had changed<\/p>\n

As I was crossing Bethnal Green Road and heading for Redchurch Street, some wedding cars pulled up and all these smartly dressed people got out and headed for this remarkable area of street art. I wandered past while they shot a few photos and, while keeping a respectful distance,\u00c2\u00a0I realised I could get a photograph myself which principally featured one of Stik\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s figures on the Londonewcastle building and Eine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mural but also captured the incongruity of the smart, formal wedding party. The bride\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stunningly white dress is such a contrast to the chaos of the street \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the bike, the bollards, the leaning traffic sign and the rubbish. But the bride and groom (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve no idea who they were) seemed to be loving the setting, although the Stik man appears to be anxiously casting his watchful gaze over the couple.<\/p>\n

If I can manage to capture in my writing even a small amount of the sense of place and the exuberance and optimism in that picture then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be very happy<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another picture below from the Boxpark end of Ebor Street.<\/p>\n

\"Graffiti<\/a>
Eine Shoreditch Wedding from Boxpark Direction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a slightly cheesy caption for the above photo but those in the know will also recognise it as the name of a pub near Old Street, on the edge of Shoreditch and the place I ended up with the Love Art London group after the graffiti tour. And even though I took it myself, … <\/p>\n

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