Just after midnight I returned to Battersea Bridge with my camera, thinking that I would take some pictures of the reflections of the lights of Albert and Chelsea bridge on the water. However, the light that actually caught my eye was playing off the structure of Battersea Bridge itself.

The soft luminesence of the moon and the lanterns above enabled the strength and geometry of the bridge’s own structure to emerge from the blackness of the night. The bridge itself, a bold commitment to the spanning of two worlds. The place where I stood, neither in one world or the other.

This forms the latest addition to my long term project – dynamics of presence.

I love the following quote, sent to my by my friend, Stephen Lue. It speaks of the mythical bridge and comes from ‘Manual of the Warrior of Light’ by Paulo Coelho.

“Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. In one of them he is obliged to do all the things he does not want to do and to fight for ideas in which he does not believe. But there is another life, and he discovers it in his dreams, in his reading and in his encounters with people who share his ideas. The warrior allows his two lives to draw near, “there is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,” he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.”