Shape of shards
“We explained to him that if foxes were meant to be 72 stories off the ground, they would have evolved wings... We think he got the message and, as we released him back on to the streets of Bermondsey shortly after midnight on Sunday, he glanced at the Shard and then trotted off in the other direction.”
——Barrie Hargrove
In 2011, a fox was found on the 72nd floor of the unfinished skyscraper, the Shard, about 288 metres above the ground. The workers sent him down and named him Romeo. The year before, the Shard had replaced Canary Wharf as the tallest building in London.
In this project, the Shard appears in every image as a subject to be photographed and observed. It is shaped like a contemporary Babylon, acting as symbol of the steady development of modern civilization in terms of quality and proportion.