We’ve admired the ingenuity and beauty of brick building all week - now it’s time to look at the ‘dark side’.
Damaged brick walls.
As you might remember, last week, with our circle theme, we looked at the beauty of imperfection and the concept of wabi sabi.
Well, this not about imperfection.
This is about damage - structural or superficial.
However much one might admire a perfectly laid brick wall, there is an eerie beauty to damaged walls.
Walls with cracks.
Walls with broken stones.
Walls where the covering plaster has partly come off to show underlying layers of brick beauty (there is an entire Instagram account devoted to these called @brickshiding - do check it out).
Artist Alex Chinneck even created a giant crack artwork in London.
“Six Pins and Half a Dozen Needles” by Alex Chinneck - unknown photographer
He collaborated with steelworkers, engineers and brickmakers to create “Six Pins and Half a Dozen Needles”, the above artwork, designed to look like a giant crack in the wall of a brick building. You can find out more in this article on the Dezeen website.
Today, admire the beauty of broken bricks.
Walk into back alleys, cul-de-sacs, forgotten areas.
Look for cracks (large or small), gaps and breaches.
And wonder at the beauty of what’s broken.
You can share your beautifully broken brickwork on Twitter or Instagram, using the hashtag #kramerseye.
And if you’re on social media then do follow @kramerseye on Instagram or Twitter.