Transient Spaces
The Path most Travelled
(Completed as part of my FETAC Course 2011-12)
This series of images is intended to be a visual exploration of the inanimate landscapes in which people commute through daily, on their way to and from work. Spaces such as main streets, lane ways, stairs, escalators, corridors, roads, railway stations and other forms of public transport. Even though these spaces have been planned and designed by local authorities, sometimes these landscapes struggle to contain and cope with the crowds that travel through them every day. Through these images I intend to display the vast crowds of people milling through these landscapes and thoroughfares associated with the chaotic footfall of rush hour. While these areas are crammed with people at certain times of the day, they also exist in a calmer state, when the crowds have dispersed and the space is resigned to their subconscious until it is needed again. I intend to give a sense and scale of time, it’s relativity to the landscape and the people in the images. In terms of time, these landscapes will far outlast the people who travel with in them. The permanence of these landscape contrasts the transient nature of the people travelling through them, I feel this has a link to the transparency of the space and its occupants in our memory.