Category Archives: Take a Seat

Taking a seat, taking a moment, is not always a solitary experience: sometimes a space is shared by choice, sometimes by necessity.  Here it’s a matter of necessity – like galleries, there are never enough seats on stations.  The space … Continue reading →

The seated one might be taking the moment to gaze proprietorially at the view.  ‘The “tourist gaze” is explained by sociologist John Urry as the set of expectations that tourists place on local populations when they participate in heritage tourism, … Continue reading →

This series of pictures looks at people sitting in public places.  Does this mean the public domain and any space used by the public?  Or is it any place exposed to the public gaze.  This woman is reading The Midnight … Continue reading →

Why does it seem that a couple of hours browsing round a museum or exhibition is always more tiring than a five mile walk?  Maybe it’s the pace, the stopping and starting – experience tells me that a slow, ambling … Continue reading →

Here someone is taking several moments – to sketch a Corfiot mourionia (gargoyle) in pen.  She has not chosen to take a seat: she is in a wheelchair.  Photo: Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece, June 2019

A lot of people work sitting down, though it’s not often in public apart from those beavering away at laptops in coffee shops.  Anyway, wherever they are working the opportunity to drift off for a few moments is probably a … Continue reading →