The Camberwell Arts Festival is in full swing this week, as I discovered this morning. I stumbled upon this news in the pages of the local free newspaper Peckham Peculiar and although the event is more about artists than artisans (I’ll explain my personal definition at a later stage), of course I had to go.
I’d missed all the glory of the opening ceremony last Saturday, but still thought there would be enough action to inspire me and keep me entertained. So I got off the bus at Camberwell Green, expecting to see lots of in-your-face art vying for my attention. Instead I saw loads of ads, but where was the art.
Aha! Camberwell is taking the term “hidden talent” pretty seriously, right?
Wrong!
If you look closer…., no, closer still….
See that yellow blob in the window? That’s just one piece of Tom Leighton’s photography project, the A-Z Sweetie Trail: twenty six letters, 26 photos of sweets,26 clues and 26 interesting points of Camberwell local culture.
All I had to do was open my eyes, follow the clues and get lost in the moment. What a wonderful way to get to know a new area.
Thank you, Tom!
Artisan Makers 