just the right amount of Lewis Carroll

Liverpool Life Artist Ed Purver recently visited Liverpool and saw the empty streets of Anfield. He was inspired to suggest this rather mind blowing site specific art project which has just the right amount of Lewis Carroll about it to impress me:

Ed Purver - On the Street sketches from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.

He talks about his inspiration on the Liverpool Biennial blog:

"So it’s a strange thing to experience this in Liverpool, of all places, which is home to some of the warmest, most expressive people in the whole country. It is a city that is overflowing with personality, and so it is even more of a disturbing experience to visit these places where personality has been removed.

"In Anfield, around the ‘V streets’, I sometimes felt like I was walking through a micro ghost town. It made me think again about ghosts, phantoms and phantom limbs, about who were both here and not here. Who used to be here? Who would still be living here in these houses if they hadn’t been slated for demolition? What would it look like to ‘repopulate’ these houses with these ‘ghosts’?"

Parts of the Smithdown Road area are similar. Some of these aren't the best houses every thrown up, but we always must question the demolishing of one set of houses simply top build new ones. Seems like an awful lot of effort.