Description
“Via Graffiti” is the fourth 2022 Chapbook or Photozine (April 2022 edition) from Simon, based on his personal photography.
This Chapbook “Via Graffiti” is A5 in size, made up of 32 pages and featuring 18 photos captured by Simon. Thoughtfully printed on quality, heavy-duty paper (more details below), only 100 will ever be printed of these limited-edition chapbooks. Each one is numbered. (Subscribe to the complete 2022 chapbook series here)
From inside the back cover of “Via Graffiti”;
I planned to document a bicycle trip from Cheshire to Kent with images of street art. I imagined this afterword would be drawn from street artists’ words and ideas. Yes, I’d expected that murals and graffiti would be ubiquitous. But no, there was less urban scrawl than I’d expected, especially rare in the heritage parklands of the Peak District. Instead, it was the elusive Chiffchaff that inspired us.
The first encounter was with an unseen Chiffchaff singing from nearby trees as I headed off on the laden bicycle from my home in Dublin. Then came a ferry trip to Wales, followed by a drive to Manchester. Half-a-day later, the same song serenaded us while we took tea on a sunny Mancunian patio. Three of us set out the next day, two cyclists together with a reclusive Chiffchaff whose familiar calls and songs accompanied our departure.
Among scant bushes and windbreak trees in the Dales of Derbyshire, along the somnolent canal towpaths that transect other shires, through planned suburban and gifted urban parks, the piercing ‘chiff-chaff’ encouraged us over eight days. I was bolstered through hedge-trimmed thorn punctures and squeaking brakes by many ‘chiff-chaff, chiff-chaff, chiff-chaff, chiff-chaff, chiff-chaff’ doublets.
The little bird even defeated gale driven hail while guiding us along cycleways in Kent. Finally, as the sun set while on our approach to Canterbury, the little bird that soundscaped the 550 km journey, chiff-chaffed us in towards the East Gate, singing just as it surely sang before the end of Thomas à Beckett’s time there in 1170.
More Chapbook Details
Saddle Stitched Book A5, Cover Silk 250gsm, Inner Silk 150gsm,
Portrait, Saddle Stitch Binding, Cover Both Sides, Cover One Side Matt, Inner Both Sides
See more about what Simon has to say about this Chapbook in these pages from his blog – walkingcommentary.net
- ‘Via Graffiti’ – this is the post made by Simon when he mailed “Via Graffiti” to his subscribers
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