From Life-Still (Studies for an alienated landscape)

OUTSIDE THE BANK OF ENGLAND
Book of poems by T.S.Eliot, lying open at 'Whispers of Immortality'
Child deciding which comic to buy today
Man and woman embracing
Man urinating over Rolls Royce car
Photograph album o old friends
Postcard of Queen Elizabeth II

OUTSIDE THE NATIONAL GALLERY
Admission ticket to a Royal Festival Hall concert
'Buddy Holly Lives' aerosoled on a wall
Demonstrators gathered in protest against low pay
Discarded bingo score card
Film advertisement featuring a naked girl
Woman adjusting her hearing aid as she huddles shivering in her overcoat

OUTSIDE THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
Copy of 'The Gambler' by Dostoyevsky
Crowd of Rugby League supporters
Packet of contraceptive pills
Sandwich-board man wearing a Lenin badge and scratching his leg
TV set showing an old Flash Gordon film
Wreath lying against a war memorial

OUTSIDE THE ADVERTISING ASSOCIATION
Ballet dancer sheltering from the rain in a telephone kiosk
Bespectacled mother shaking and scolding her children
Busker with a copy of 'The Sporting Life' in his pocket
Pirelli calendar
Plastic crucifix
Two women discussing the 1966 Seamen's Strike

OUTSIDE BROADCASTING HOUSE
Framed photograph of Ed 'Kookie' Byrnes
Gang of boys playing around an ice cream van and pretending to shoot each other
Raffle ticket wrapped around a severed finger
Roadsweeper studying his pay packet
Taxi heading for the National Film Theatre
Women's Liberation symbol chalked on the pavement