Sunday, August 19, 2012

Bars and grills

Every window in every house is covered with decorative wrought iron in geometric designs and little Curley cues. Quite picturesque. Every house or apartment complex has a view proof wall with a substantial but decorative gate. Very different from South Africa where wall was always topped with broken glass and barbed wire. And even that did not work very well. 

Inside our garden wall is overgrown with shrubs and vines so it is all green and you get a sense of garden not enclosure. The doors and windows of the house are always open for air and access. Including the very elaborate grill over the sliding back door to the garden.

Tonight because there are so few of us and the guard is in the other wing, the grill is closed and locked. Suddenly it feels restrictive and confining. They are keeping bad things out but us in.

The difference between bars and grills. Which side you are on. What they secure. What they restrict.

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