'Murder: Two Men Wanted', 2003
Transcript
This is London Fields, just next to where I live, and it's quite an interesting building - I like all the graffiti on it, that tree painting gives it a quite haunting effect - and just reading lots of articles about people being attacked in this part, and other parts all round Hackney, and some murders, and all sorts of other things.
And when this is actually set in dusk, it does become a very different scene from the scene we're seeing here today, with lots of kids running around, quite a happy daytime scene. It can become quite spooky, quite creepy, with these trees, not much light. So this is a setting for an attack or a murder or something like that.
This is based on a painting by Piero di Cosimo, which is in the National Gallery, and it's loosely got a story that maybe this girl is a murder victim, and this is her loyal dog that's stayed with her, or it could be the person who's found her, the boyfriend's maybe found her, and this is his dog that's now going to stay with her. There's a few different things going on - it's up to you, it's left a bit open for you to interpret as you see fit.
A lot of people just don't like walking through these parts at night - this is actually common ground, so it's not locked up, like Regent's Park, at night, it's actually open 24 hours a day, it's common land. But a lot of people are too scared to walk through because of all the murders, and the attacks and all the horrible things that happen.
