The sunflower windows

The sunflower windows, Moderate Studio journal, 2017

A sunflower wallpaper I designed and printed, installed in the boarded windows of a derelict brick building near the Mill. Bright yellow blooms filling the dark window openings of a building that had nothing behind the glass, so the flowers stand in for a view that is not there.

It is a simple, cheering thing to do to a dead building, and a bit of a sad one too. Papering over the emptiness with something that looks like summer, in the middle of a Salford winter, on a street that had mostly given up.

The sunflower windows, Moderate Studio journal, 2017
The sunflower windows, Moderate Studio journal, 2017

Part of the Islington Mill case study.