Paris in London
A little slow to note this, but our good friend Rod McLaren managed to take one of Wrights & Sites Mis-Guided tours and had a wonderful time.
“Outside the ICA, we talk of Paris as an invisible city overlaid on London - lovely … The team consults the maps at Trafalgar Square, the ground-zero of roads, miles and city-stories. We overlay a map of Paris over one of London and fix the I.M.Pei Pyramide to Nelson’s Column (currently hidden under a scaffold for conservation). After some discussion and inspiration from Fiona, we rotate the map so that La Musée D’Orsay hovers over the Royal Academy, and decide to walk to it, a journey that will require a crossing of the Seine…”
Rive gauche (on Duke of York Street)
As if his recounting of their wondrous voyage across Paris in London weren’t enough, Rod gives us a second personal narrative that layers East Marden in the early 1980s on top of Paris on top of London. Good stuff.
You can also check out rodcorp’s Paris in London flickr photoset.