Back St. E. from Hereford St. 

Editor: This is Paul Rowell's "Back St. E. from Hereford St." The photo’s stark contrast and linear composition create a somewhat eerie atmosphere. What visual cues draw your attention, and how do you interpret this work? Curator: The inversion of light and shadow evokes a dreamlike quality. Rowell uses the street and buildings as powerful symbols of permanence and habitation, but inverted, their meaning shifts. They carry cultural weight, becoming almost ghostly markers of a familiar world seen askew. What emotions does this evoke for you? Editor: It's unsettling, yet familiar. It feels like a memory fading at the edges. Curator: Exactly. The emotional resonance comes from that tension – the known made unknown, tapping into a shared sense of time and place distorted by memory. Editor: I hadn't thought about it in terms of memory before. Curator: Visual symbols carry cultural memory and continuity.