Torn Curtain: Art on the Underground
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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.)
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
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