SNAPSHOT
Reality doesn’t happen by itself. Terry Lothian works tirelessly to maintain the background details that we all take for granted. But with his department feeling the pinch of austerity cutbacks, it’s not just the fabric of reality that’s starting to unravel. (synopsis via Laughing Squid)
Life moves along quickly.
And to be perfectly honest, we’re moving at such breakneck speed these days, that noticing the small incidental things that make up the background fabric of our lives, can often go unnoticed.
That shoe lying forlornly in the gutter – did you notice it? Or the child’s cardigan draped across a bus shelter seat? saw it but it didn’t register? Book left on a park bench? Glanced at it but didn’t retain it.
What about all those odd little sounds that punctuate the rhythm of our lives? Hear them but they don’t make much impact?
But don’t tell Terry, the man responsible for the small but important touches that add a little extra interesting detail to the same-old, same-old day-to-day passage of time.
He’s take a huge amount of pride in his job and is increasingly frustrated that the austerity cutbacks gripping Britain under the Conservatives, are hampering, in significant ways, his ability to do the job he loves (well kind of; it’s better than the alternative anyway).
It’s an inventive, wholy original and often funny piece of biting social commentary bound up, as great satire of is, in a quirky, whimsical premise.
You’ll love the iron-hand-in-a-velvet glove approach of Clanker Man and who knows, maybe next time you will see that stray bit of graffiti on the wall you pass every day?