Wednesday’s
Window is one of my favourite posts. I have stopped and photographed shop windows
for years without quite realising what they could be: a week after week blog
post, of course! There are going to be some old and out of date ones coming up (so
you’ll no longer be able to see them live) because even when I’m not blogging,
I don’t stop taking pics of gorgeous, clever, interesting windows. I’m just drawn
to them.
Back in June
I had a date with some friends in the newly refurbished Siam Centre to eat cake
and afterwards, I wandered about. This, as a window, wasn’t particularly
impressive because I had to get up close to spot it; but as an installation
inside the shop, I loved it. It’s from Lacoste and they very kindly – though I’m
sure I wasn’t meant to – allowed me to take some pictures inside.
From the
outside, these crocodiles were so beautifully crisp looking that I thought they
were metallic but they are actually made of good quality card with a high gloss
finish.
And I have to
confess, I’m actually quite freaked out by the pile of crocs by the door. (My
children will sigh and huff and roll their eyes, given that these are paper crocodiles in childish
colours; but what is sculpture or art for if it isn’t to move us in some way?
Yes, children, I am still too terrified to watch Jurassic Park; yes, I know
that the dinosaurs can’t possibly be real but I go in prepared to believe.) It’s
the way that these guys have clambered over each other to get to whatever it is
they want that makes me unsettled, which is I think a reminiscence of the behaviour I saw years ago at one of Bangkok’s
crocodile farms.
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