This is a hastily-taken photo near the Kingsland Road in Hackney, one of the neighborhoods on the tip of gentrification in east London.

The juxtaposition of the new bar next to shutters with awkward graffiti, the old Victorian buildings with varying architecture and the all-black clad hipsters on the street make me conjure up the smell of smog.

And make me want to strew skeins of yarn throughout the streets to bring color into the bland urban landscape.