Yesterday’s Daily Create was about boundaries, and I was thinking about what my response would be as I was walking up to a Uni meeting yesterday morning.
First, as I got off the bus and started walking up the path, I stopped to take this picture. It’s not obvious from here, but the road to the left goes up the hill to the university, while the path straight ahead goes through Kelvingrove park – and once you start along the path through the park you cannot get through to the Uni until the far end of the park – a high metal fence creates an unpassable boundary between gown and town.
Path up from Dumbarton Rd to Glasgow Uni flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Then, as I reached the entrance to the Main Building I discovered that it was shut, instead of standing open as it usually did. It was no problem to walk a few feet to an open archway, but again I noticed that this usually open space was locked down.
South Front Door, Main Building, Glasgow University flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
Although I was not expecting it to be closed, I wasn’t surprised as I’d been emailed earlier to alert me to the extra security due to the student occupation outside the library. Despite the torrential rain, these tents have been there for a few days now. I felt for them a couple of minutes after I took this photo as the heavens opened again and I was drenched by the time I got to my next meeting.
87/365 Student Occupation flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
So very many different boundaries – both physical and moral, represented in these three pictures.
