Bonnie & Clyde: love, drugs, danger & psychogeography

A tale of love, drugs, danger & psychogeography. Fictional characters based on real people and events. She is given the name 'Bonnie'. She is 23. He is given the name 'Clyde' and is 24. It is the early stages of the 21st Century.

"Vous avez lu l'histoire, De Jesse James"

Its a rare moment. The location is a coffee shop on Bricklane, East London and Clyde is reading a broadsheet newspaper magazine on a Sunday morning. His world is reminscant of a yoghurt as he is wired after being up all night. He's just refueled as he waits for Bonnie to return from the toilet to do the same on the sly. This state of mind makes the experience of Shoreditch very, very obsucre. They hold hands and stay close to each others bodies as the sense of touch for loved ones is stimulating and enhanced. Bricklane becomes hallucnagenic; people and open market stalls evolve into a varied combination of surreal components, forms of life and objects. Bonnie is the braver one. Her appearence shows that she is innocent. She is beautiful and a sophisticated dresser. She is well travelled, middle class and has a deeper criminal side that her intelligence uses to her advantage. Clyde finds the experience in this state uncomfortable. He is more her assistant in crime as Bonnie leads the way. Clyde regains his confidence as they walk past the Truman Brewery, and the experience, clutter and figures in the city become much more subtle. They go into a vintage clothes shop and Bonnie starts to shoplift the clothes she requires. Suddenly 'Darklands' by the Jesus & Mary Chain starts to play out and Clyde begins to relax - as he usually does when hearing familiar music. He enjoys the experience as the yoghurt feeling starts to seem thicker. He pays the usual compliments to Bonnie as she tries on clothes and subsequently steels them. She goes back inside the changing room to make the kill, and Clyde pays attention to himself in the mirror and gets anxious as his pupils seem massive, like black saucers trying to jump from his eyes; usually a fantastic royal blue but the colour is nowhere to be seen. From his own experience, he knows the euphoria will start pretty soon and is quickly reassured.



Leaving the vintage clothes shop, they walk around the back streets towards a green space near Arnold Circus. The brickwork looks and feels like sponge. Neither can tell what year it is, as beings and people appear to wear what looks like period garments.




They reach the open space, just a stones throw away from Columbia Road, Bethnal Green. They stare at the sky and take photos of each other. Clyde, his perception of colour radically enhanced to notice pigments and detail, is compelled to find just how many different shades of green there are. Bonnie talks about how she changed when she was eighteen years old. They both notice the curious features to the park, not knowing if they are real or not. An hour and a half goes by as they contemplate, embrace and chat in the September sun. The final stage of the experience is approaching. Now the architecture of the minds starts to be retained to a stage where they can walk longer distances that could be easily done in a normal state of mind. Clyde has a much needed cigarrette and then pulls out some chewing gum; an essential neccesity at this stage. They start to make there way back to Bonnie's house.




Now in Bonnies bedroom, Clyde is intruiged by the shear abstraction of objects that Bonnie has in her room and how different they are in this state. The space feels out of scale as he offere Bonnie more chewing gum and they open a can of pop to share. They start to embrace, of which develops and goes on for 2 more hours. Clyde has a ciggarrette out of the window.

And the soundtrack to this day;