Talkative Elements - Hanoi

All in all, I spent one grumpy, wet, exhausted day walking around the Old Town of Hanoi, Capital; Vietnam.

Yet somewhere between my grump and its chaos, every step I took picked up a little bounce. The mess, the craze, the layers, the history, the technology, the lifestyles — morphed into talkative tangible elements, strewn across every frame I chose — patiently jigsawed into one another, woven like they belong, finding their space and role, adhering to some rules (which seemingly; they construed, they worshiped, they never shared)- forming The City.

Initially, I went a little frantic. To make sense of that noise would require meditative decoding. Then I paused — what was the need?

A lamp post

A window

A wire, a creeper

A hibiscus

A symbol

Some cloth

Some air

A wait

A struggle

A hesitation

A protection

A fear

A hope

A smile

A conversation

A glimpse

A frame

The City

I captured; I let them play their game.