I was struggling up the hill with Christmas shopping (did I really buy an Advent calender for €7.99 and will Russell Brand's autobiography be any good*?) When I saw, in the dimming light, the imprint of a leaf that had somehow stained itself onto a patch of fairly pristine concrete. It was beautiful, shaped like fairy wings, and a delicate purple-brown in colour.
I loved the contrast of impermanence and permanence, our ugly, unbiodegradable concrete somehow imprinted by this fleeting idea of an autumn leaf. Like natural graffiti. Nature's art on a concrete canvass.
It reminds me of those pressed fairies!
And then I thought, I can use my phone camera!
*Russell's book was thoroughly hearted by me and Axel in the end.
7 comments:
Russell brand's AB is great. I love him. I also love that picture... makes me think of dragonflies... Beautiful!
It's a fairy!!
I agree! It IS a pressed fairy. Flat Fairy.
Or the ashy silhouette of an incinerated one, maybe :)
i love this impression. magical!
you could post it to google maps, so more people can enjoy it!
This way to the pressed fairy?
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