Is it a tower block or a molten monolith?
Sometimes I look up from my work because I see a glow in the corner of my eye. And there it is: the tower block on the other side of the motorway, majestic against a blue sky, the western sunlight slanting just right.
This is how it looked today with a few streaks of sunset lurking in the mix. Through the huge northern-exposed windows in my studio I can track how the passing weather teases colour out of the tower block. Blue sky can give way to black so swiftly in Scotland – this is both a joy and a frustration depending on whether you are watching it from inside or outdoors.
The best is when a rainbow slinks in behind that tower block – or even, heaven help me now – a double rainbow. Then I stop whatever I am doing and watch until it has gone wherever rainbows go when they are done knocking me out.
I recently had a chance to move to a new studio, but said no. Among my reasons: I can’t give up that sky, even though there is a noisy superhighway under it.