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| All Images: Central Leicester, May 2020 |
Here are a few more images of vacant or inactive commercial premises, captured on another of my routine lock-down bike rides around Leicester. Although these were encountered at two separate food-related locations - it's striking how they're unified by their red-painted framing elements, and delicious paper-based blanking strategies.
I'm not sure if it's exactly healthy that I'm starting to almost enjoy the slightly post-apocalyptic mood suffusing the city centre, in recent weeks. In my defence, subjects like these windows were well represented in my photo archive, long before we'd ever heard of Covid-19. It's not even certain that the inactive state of these premises is directly virus-related. Years of economic uncertainty and Austerity have been stimulating such phenomena for years, after all.
Nevertheless, they do seem to capture the current atmosphere, I feel. As I cycle around the eerie, almost deserted city streets, I can't help wondering if such economic inactivity, and the vacated spaces and blind windows that result, will become ever more prevalent features of the urban landscape 'once this is all over'.
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