Escape

As a teenager at school I had a range of different jobs from paper boy and potato picking to stacking supermarket shelves. Then as a student teacher I worked during the holidays as a gardener and as a labourer on the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham. None of these jobs were particularly challenging from an intellectual point of view but in some ways I probably learnt more about real life than I did from the books I had to read.

During my labouring job I learnt how to let my mind wander. These days I note that the workers who have to cycle around delivering food and wait outside restauraunts similarly may have wandering minds. Perhaps they dream of escaping from the tedium of their precarious low paid work; hence the title of the above image of a cyclist on a mission in a dream like landscape: ‘Escape’.

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