132 - Changing Times

132 - Changing Times
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This is the side of the shopping pavilion I mentioned in the previous post, complete with genuine peasant farmer in the bottom right corner.

Actually, the train and the graffiti were added to the picture by me to represent the long passing of large murals on walls from the 1940s to the 1980s, and the rapid rise in graffiti over the past decade with easing access to spray paints.

I had been playing around with the train image, playing because the original train was too scruffy to be of interest to many, when I saw the opportunity to bring together several themes in one image - the architecture, murals, graffiti, and the social exclusion of the poorer classes.