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The Butterfly (Buddleia) Bush is a difficult plant, regarded as unwelcome. It is a shrub that lives like a weed on waste ground and railway cuttings (and bomb sites) and is symbolic of urban decay when it makes its home in abandoned buildings. It penetrates and destroys masonry and brickwork. Specialist companies are employed to eradicate it.
The Butterfly (Buddleia) Bush is a much valued garden plant, with densely clustered, small, purple, lilac, red, (or sometimes white) flowers. These flowers have great beauty and are welcomed by gardeners for having a delightful
honey-like fragrance, which attracts butterflies. The Butterfly Bush may be purchased from garden centres.
People can be difficult, and may be found guilty of unwelcome, anti-social behaviour. They can occupy unloved or abandoned areas, or even wealthy ones, where they harm community well-being through hurtful behaviour.
Specialist agencies – police, prisons, security guards, councils and government bodies seek to manage or contain them. Paramilitary groups also enforce their own behaviour codes.
People are much loved by their parents, families, and relatives, and by their friends, friendship groups, and neighbours. Communities have churches, pubs, cafes, schools, clubs, and are rich in local tradition, where people are mutually supportive. Communities may be densely clustered with people of different sexes, skin colours, religious and belief systems, ages, politics, and musical
tastes, and a wide variety of colourful clothing may be worn – rose, yellow, pink, blue, green, black, orange, purple, white, or sometimes psychedelic. People are valued by their communities for both their similarities and unique
differences, and the deep meaning these bring to human existence.
Gareth McConnell is a photographer-artist. He grew up in the Troubles. He has been both social and anti-social in his life, and now prefers the social. He has great interest in people. McConnell’s highly coloured interpretations of natural human perfection and imperfection can be seen, in all their intensely acute power, in these photographs.
Text by Neal Brown