Went along to the Daniel Eatock exhibition at the Kemistry gallery yesterday lunchtime. There were lots of great things to look at and think about, such as the fantastic and well documented Pantone Pen Print made by leaving the pens to soak into the paper over time…

The Big Brother 7 logo which he duped the tabloid press into believing would reveal a secret message if they stared at it for a week…

And the lovely ‘Richard Holley’ self portraits made from people’s fingerprints and innermost thoughts…

But it wasn’t really these things which I enjoyed the most. They were great, but I’d seen them before, and I’m still not sure what’s so great about dangling a pair of trainers with comedically long laces over a telegraph wire. The best part of the show for me was the wallpaper. Let me explain…

Eatock (or one of his minions) had papered the room with examples of spontaneous and humourous images which he has collected or been sent by fellow observers. They were the sorts of banal things we walk past every day, and also the sorts of things I love to spot for my Flickr stream or photoblog. Some of the nicest examples were the broken tree…

The sunlight streetlamp…

…and the barren flowerbed…

Head over to his site and have a look around…