'It is no secret that I have a huge affinity with archways. It has probably to do with what lies beyond the archway. And the arch acts as an introduction,...
"It is no secret that I have a huge affinity with archways. It has probably to do with what lies beyond the archway. And the arch acts as an introduction, as an invitation to look through or walk through or peer through. This particular archway in Morocco was one of the best I have ever seen. Not simply because of the fact that it was an arch, but because of what lay beyond. What lay beyond was the most unexpected sight: a white wall and an explosive cumulus cloud with blue sky. It was so elegant, completely beautiful and I fell in love with it in the first few seconds of seeing it. Then the battle comes, as it often does, of how to convey my human emotional response at this marvellous archway and what lay beyond or through it. So that’s the battle, and it was a battle. I only hope that I managed to convey what a sense of wonder I experienced when I saw this absolutely beautiful sight. I particularly liked the splash of yellow either side of the bottom of the archway and in the distance a matching horizontal line. So it’s a marvellous mix of horizontals and rectangles and arcs, and of course, the one thing that runs counter to all those quite severe geometric lines and arcs is the fluffy white cloud, which doesn’t really belong in such a setting. So it was a wonderful piece of theatre and I loved it enormously." Charlie Waite