Our new thought provoking and interesting homepage image is from Grrlalex (at grralex.co.uk), and here are a few words from Alex introducing it:
I might have climbed on top of a phone box: and when I say 'might', I of
course mean 'did'. And one shouldn't really, but being creative one tends to think a little outside the box - or in this case 'on top of the box'.
The image is of course the new development in Newport centre. Newport is undergoing an exciting regeneration program - much of it behind the scenes, both physically and metaphorically: hence my need to climb to a decent vantage point. The image then says something about new and old - and about change. This section of the town centre will once again be transformed with the 'latest architecture' as it was a generation ago. And I suspect in time, the buildings which will emerge from behind the hoardings later this year, will themselves become as out-dated as the ones recently pulled down: in turn to be replaced with the 'latest new'. And I wonder which if any, will remain a hundred years on as exist on the high street?
Life is invariably about change, about evolution and development. Out with the old, in with the new. Newport has a fascinating history and heritage, some of it still preserved in its architecture; some of it wiped away as the obsolete parts undergo renewal and replacement. So, this isn't meant to be a 'pretty' photo, its an image that hopefully tells a story, I'd like people to read this image as Newport emerging from the dark and moving towards a bright new future. The metaphor is there in the way I've framed the image.
And that's why I stood on a phone box.
Alex
www.grrlAlex.co.uk