Today I noticed that every where you go in the city, you are observed. Not that someone is necessarily watching you all the time, though much of the time you are in someone's line of sight. But it's difficult to find a place to lie down or to stop and look up at the sky without feeling like you're a) putting yourself in danger or b) behaving in a way that will alarm people.
I'm a total hypocrite of course. I observe people all the time. I study their movements, their clothing choices, their sounds. These are important things to observe as an artist. In order for your work to speak of reality, you have to know, intimately, what reality is lik