East-West

Little things in the East
Near my new work, on the Bethnal Green Road, there is a place called Noodle King. It’s a fast noodle place, serving simple Chinese-ish style noodles and rice. For £3.30 you get a seriously big bowl of dumplings and noodles in soup. It’s pretty tasty and very fast. Mid-meal I just suddenly noticed there was a drawing on my spoon – I think it’s an aubergine and a squiggle.



I liked it a lot, but on any other day I wouldn’t have noticed it. It got me thinking about how much we do and don’t notice of the things around us, and the funniest little places you can put messages. (Like on the underside of Innocent smoothie bottles – check it out.)

Big things in the West
Near where I live now, there is this thing called the Chelsea Design Centre. It’s a place where interior designers have studios. It’s always empty and really I’m not sure what it does. But whenever I stroll through there they always have something nice in the atrium. Today it was butterflies. Loads of them, hanging from the ceiling. Cool.