17 June

One of my passions is unravelling the big generalist terms that dominate our lives. Like 'The Economy'. Or 'business'. Or 'traffic'. None of those exist. Another that doesn't is 'the public'. There is no such thing. It's a handy summary term we use to describe everybody together, somehow. But one of the reasons I spend ages looking at photos of crowds is, you can clearly see that every single person in them is still thinking and feeling as an individual. A crowd is individuals choosing to act in certain ways, never an actual separate thing.