St. George's Walk in Croydon, a walk through space, now a deserted shopping arcade paused in time as it awaited confirmation of the Westfield Croydon project. Empty shop units that once populated the stretch are now but a few, now rather an alternative hang out space for the young and a space for sub-cultural expressions by graffiti artists and skateboarders. Covered in layers of tagging and ghostly attempts to convert this walk into something more.
A found Youtube promo video, working towards a 'cleaner' Croydon. I found this video to be poetic in its own right as the one floor slab of St. George's Walk is cleaned by the community worker with a pressure spray. The contrast between the young seeing it as a dream space versus this literal cleaning process.