SQUARE!
SQUARE!
QUEEN VICTORIA FERENS ART GALLERY
CITY HALL
TOWN DOCK MUSEUM Pablo Luis Gonzรกlez-Rueda
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PIGEON SEAGULL KINGDOM
PRINCES DOCK SHOPPING CENTRE
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One Spring Saturday afternoon
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Pigeons, seagulls, shoppers, street cleaners, university and college students at the end of academic year graduation ceremonies, myself having been one of them once upon a time, the cold whiteness of snow, when it falls, not that often, unavoidable charity workers, buskers, street performers, dignitaries, street theatre, city workers, school children on holiday, school children who are not on holiday, musicians, the local symphonic orchestras, including the Youth one, I think there is one if I am not wrong, politicians, school parties photographing themselves with the stone seriousness of Queen Victoria Square as a backdrop, political rallies, art, culture, tradition, the Beverley Gate, commerce in the metallic shape of Princes Dock Shopping Centre, built on a former working dock, a rather pathetic Christmas tree, I have to say, buses and taxis constantly crossing, interrupting its flow, the young girl who used to ask for a few coins from a selected few passer byers, myself being one of them, no, she was not a beggar, just an enterprising kid, marchers, protesters, preachers, street vendors, every kind of festivals, all converging on the square, a nod bringing together all the subterranean, and not so subterranean, forces shaping the city. Over the years, it has been transformed from a roundabout with Queen Victoria in the middle, to a fully pedestrianised square, now, at the time of writing this, looking more and more like a well loved but rather elderly aunt, with missing bricks here and there, scarred by the ever digging utility companies, behaving like corporate moles. I was impressed by the old masters collection at the Ferens Art Gallery when I arrived in the city, late summer 1976. I am, still, after all these years.
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Photography, text and design: Pablo Luis Gonzรกlez-Rueda