Design…it’s all around us.

I’ve just spent last week walking around Sydney. The city is just full of sensory overload for me and I can hardly take it all it. It feels like I’m on drugs (although I’ve had limited experience on this one, I’ve got an imagination for the experience).  When you live in the city, travelling day after day through the grime and people your sensory receptors get dulled, but when visiting they’re on high alert.

I was lucky to come across this amazing, almost ghostly apparition of chance architectural shibori patterning. It was taken on my iphone in filtered semi overcast light on the sandstone face of the building 46 Market street, opposite the Queen Victoria Building. The reflections of the glass building opposite it relayed the most beautiful patterning which looked like a naturally dyed shibori textile. When I came back past it in the afternoon it was gone. The photo is exactly as I took it with no photoshopping or editing. What a lucky experience. I’ll now always call that building the ‘Shibori building’. Ironically a bank seems to own the building or claims its heights with a sign. I doubt that anyone connected with the building would know about this great beauty or care! I hope I’m wrong though.