Wow, love the tone and drama in that photo
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Yeah kind of weird - it was blue sky and sunny, yet the phone decided to do some weird colour balancing - I quite liked the effect so it’s totally unedited.
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This photo is from the @HornimanMuseum, in the main reception area:
There’s info about the exhibition as a whole here https://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/upcoming-exhibitions/as-i-live-and-breathe, but I’ve reproduced some of the blurb on this particular piece as it details an interesting additional dimension which isn’t immediately apparent on viewing alone:
Claire Morgan
As I Live and Breathe, 2019
Polythene, nylon, leadThis dramatic installation is composed of thousands of fragments of colourful waste polythene, torn by hand from used shopping bags. It suggests a dramatic movement, being pulled by gravity from overhead down to the ground below, halting the movement in order to freeze a fleeting instant in time.
Claire says “I wanted to make something suggestive of our constant resistance to the forces of nature, and of a situation on the point of dramatic change, of collapse. The synthetic ball-like forms are reminiscent of comets or meteors. For me, both in this work and in life, there is a jarring between the disruptive, unstoppable cycles of life and death, that ultimately govern us, and the superficial, seductive, safe and easily consumable things: colours, materials, objects that we choose to use to entertain and distract ourselves.”
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Wow, superb picture.
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It was, indeed. I took a picture of the very same cloud formation, potentially at very same time, judging by the shapes…
I have spent more time than is reasonable trying to pinpoint on Google Earth where you took yours from (to the point where I now hate myself). But… is Hilly Fields Park in the right ballpark? Assuming that’s the church next to the fire station on Lewisham High Street.
I’ve changed my mind, that church’s steeple is not quite the right shape.
Maybe this church, somewhere along the red line…
(The things I find to do that aren’t house work astound me)
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It’s the Apostle’s Church from Waldenshaw Road 
I hope you can relax now!
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I always imagined your view was a spectacular one. I had to clamber on our roof to get a similar one but of course we were a few doors down so didn’t have the same perspective.
From my early morning run this morning - the moon setting over a cold and frosty Blythe Hill Fields.
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