Walking Adelaide: psychogeography + photography

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Autumn

leaf + trunk, 2013

Whilst I was living in the CBD I found the CBD drab and depressing. Decaying old buildings, dirty alleyways, empty lots, waste lands full of weeds and holes in the ground. It was a city in transition with the industrial past casting a long shadow. This industrial past was a form of life grown old. In 2012-3 Adelaide was a city suspended between an unrecoverable industrial past and a post-industrial future.

The industrial decay and grime was difficult to ignore. So I was glad when autumn came with its colours. Some could be found in Veale Gardens a couple of blocks from where we lived in Sturt St.

ornamental kale, Veale Gardens 2013

But not just in the Adelaide parklands. There were vines on office walls down little alleyways that I would walk through on my way to the Adelaide Central Market.

vines, Stamford Court, 2013

And the leaves in the gutter from the street trees.

gutter leaves, Compton Street, 2013

The autumn colour was such a contrast to the decaying industrial form of life.