Station Road, 2007
Five Years
Sometimes I feel that I could set all plays, stories, songs and lives in the surrounds of abandoned children’s playgrounds. Be it from its use in popular culture or from a more original perspective, I struggle to think of a better motif for humanity’s self-destruction than the desolation of an empty play-park.
See, my thinking is that the playground really is the future.
_______ Every lawyer, every dictator, every humanitarian and every tramp passes through some version of it, and whether the memories conjured include hours of finding new routes over monkey-bars, or just bleak images of sifting through needles and tinfoil, the playground is an almost universal site of fundamental exploration of the self, friendships and sexuality. _____ An empty one ____________ An empty one is filled with the echo of Lydon’s eternal and bitter snarl
________________________________________ “No Future“
© Matthew Sheret, 2008
