Electioneering and chewing gum are the best examples of motion without progress. Truman Capote
We’ve got Jeremy Corbyn seeking election for the leadership of the UK Labour Party on a Socialist, anti-neoliberal ticket and ‘Emperor’ Donald Trump, bar room huckster and hubris become flesh and skyscraper, tapping into the nation’s discontent as he campaigns for the US Republican nomination.
Both in their own way, an east wind bringing change: God’s own wind or harbinger of unfavourable events, depending on your literary and political bent.
And then we’ve got gum. Democratically scattered and squished on the pavements of Labour and Conservative boroughs alike. Motionless. Implacable. Immune to wind, rain, snow.
Both in their own way, an east wind bringing change: God’s own wind or harbinger of unfavourable events, depending on your literary and political bent.
And then we’ve got gum. Democratically scattered and squished on the pavements of Labour and Conservative boroughs alike. Motionless. Implacable. Immune to wind, rain, snow.
Ben Wilson and Jeremy Corbyn both have ‘triangle eyes’: where the upper lid comes down to form an equilateral triangle – also known in Chinese Face Reading as Politicians’ Eyes. They belong to those who are highly perceptive and skilled at reading people and situations. I often see them on the faces of Government ministers, journalists and psychologists. People who ‘have eyes at the back of their head’. Politicians with these ‘power peepers’ can use the energy to project their message to a wide audience and gain political advantage; without tactical bluffing or cliches in Corbyn’s case.
Ben’s lobbying is more gentle, blended with the steadiness of his creative spirit. He’s far-sighted and persistent in his social mission to reorder the existing gum-material on the ground so we can transform our perception of our over-controlled, homogenized world of advertisers' mega billboards and see beauty, diversity and our connection with each other.
10,000 pieces of unique pavement art later, and many lives touched, I’d say he’s making progress.
10,000 pieces of unique pavement art later, and many lives touched, I’d say he’s making progress.