Torn Curtain: Art on the Underground

[rhythmaning]

On Thursday, the tube I was on stopped at Oxford Circus, and I noticed that the walls of the tunnel were being stripped of layers of posters and cleaned.

Yesterday I went back and got off the tube to have a better look. It felt like I was an archaeologist, looking down through the layers to different ages.

It also looked like abstract paintings – particularly those by Clyfford Still: jagged lightning cutting across the walls.

I took a lot of pictures; here are some of them.

(Also, when I got back from Oxford Circus and was sitting comfortably at my laptop, looking through my friends page, I saw this post by the rather wonderful tubewhore, who had exactly the same idea, although she was at Leicester Square; perhaps they are scraping the posters away throughout the West End.)

…And just to prove it was Oxford Circus…

Comments

[psychochicken.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those are amazing....!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I know what I want for Christmas.

[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

wonderful

[tubewhore.livejournal.com]

oh those are lovely...really do have a painterly quality.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

oooh I do like those.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

These are fantastic. And they have a fantastical quality.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I was kicking myself that I forgot my big camera and only had my little pocket one...