Back On The Golden Mile 3

All Images: Melton/Belgrave Road, North Leicester, December 2018

Here's the third (and concluding) instalment of my recent crop of images harvested on Leicester's Melton/Belgrave Road.  As with Posts 1 & 2, there's nothing here that relates directly to any specific artwork project.  I prefer to think of them rather as simply the most recent manifestations of my ongoing practice of documenting the juxtaposed meanings,  possible clues, and perpetual poetry, of the urban street.  In fact it probably is the kind of stuff that often informs the work sooner or later - if only on a more subconscious level. 

This final trawl concentrates mainly on signage and texts, but also concludes with a few  miscellaneous glimpses that felt just too delicious to ignore.  One of those is a chance moment of instantaneous drama - that just fell in the centre of the viewfinder for once.  The he last two seem to capture inconsequential details, covering spiritual and earthly ends of the behavioural spectrum - whilst sharing certain formal similarities.
   

Back On The Golden Mile 2

All Images: Melton/Belgrave Road, North Leicester, December 2018

There's not too much to say here, beyond the fact that this is the second instalment of the extended photo-essay, commenced in my previous post.  Subject-wise, the images here all fall into the categories of either eating and drinking, hairdressing, or laundry establishments.  As I mentioned previously - pretty much every human need is catered for on Leicester's Melton Road (including at least one undertakers).

It's also the case that most of these shots continue to explore the interrelationship between commercial signage or display, the interior world behind the glass (sometimes animated by the human element), and reflected glimpses of the external world facing the establishment in question.  I really enjoy being able to capture multi-dimensional imagery like this, as a 'found' manifestation, rather than as something artificially manipulated after the event - not least for the intriguing or poetic chance juxtapositions it often affords.  Once mirrors are involved, as in several cases here - things seem to become even more interesting.