Next design (Knights Bridge)

It is said that Miyamoto Musashi (the greatest swords man in the Japan) met a samurai on a bridge only wide enough for one. It was agreed upon that the lesser warrior should step aside. Disagreeing on who was the lesser they drew they're swords and and regarded each other closely. After a minute without a twitch of movement they simultaneously put away they're swords bowed and left in search of another crossing.  Each man had observed the other and acknowledged that he was his equal in every respect and violence would only be foolish pride.

However this is England.

An identical situation here resulted in a fight so fierce that the area was named knightsbridge and the name has lasted long after the river itself has long disappeared. 

wilt. wither. wimple.

 Here's one from a fellow park keeper. Henry VIII during a particularly bad blizzard ejected a community of nuns into the night so as to use they're halls for a ball. They huddled together on what is now St James Park where they froze but not before cursing the king that no flowers would bloom after the cruelty he had committed. It is said that is why st James park is flowerless and why the Tudor line( represented by a rose) withered within a generation.

 Another opinion is that on finding out that the king (Charles II) was picking flowers for his mistress from the grounds of the park the queen ordered that all flowers should be band from the land. There are still no formal flower beds.

Wilt Consept sketch

This design has tiny detail that I am about to scalpel out, and so in all probability this is going to go wrong hence an insurance post. See you on the other side.

Intermission over (Mill Co)

Just completed a six week internship at the Mill co Project in Haggerston. An up and coming community arts program with a grand ambition for the future. it did however mean when i wasn't there i was sleeping and so Ive got a bit lacks on my own work. I'll work on that =S

 (this post is a binding contract that can be used on Glen Ross Riches Should he once again become lazy, Please invoke with fire and brimstone if laziness is spotted)

SOOOOHOOOO!!!! (The hunter and the hunted)

 Soho gains its name from the areas original usage as hurting grounds. The word Soho itself was a hunting cry. There is something of it's current nature that continues a predatory atmosphere. Is the human figure a neo-Artemis or the subject of a bestial gaze?

Not overly fond of this one, doubt it will ever be made.

Wealth and Taste

London has history with the devil like much of Britain.  If he's not moving cathedrals to confuse monks he's making you an offer too good to pass up.

On the 27th January 1626 the social climbing Hatton Family are rumored to have excepted the offer of wealth and power. The deal was sealed with a party in which Lady Elizabeth Hatton dance with the devil himself.

The devil became boisterous and killed Elizabeth leaving her perpetually beating heart behind.
"torn limb from limb, but with her heart still pumping blood."

The Street where the deal was struck became know as Bleeding Heart Yard and is named so still.

Make Do and Mend

 After the London blitz the metal stretchers used during the raids were used as garden fences in some parts of the city. Some areas still retain these make do and mean fences(as does the end of my road).

Red cross of rose thorn, medicl equipment and the grid of the fence.
Better to remove an component such as the tools and add more plant life.