Woburn ArtBeat

My work is a social/geographical investigation of the psychodynamics of space in relation to people in place. It is a survey of how we use space and function. The work attempts to decode urban scenes, the activities of the every day, walking to work, shopping and enjoying a stroll. No trace of buildings, landmarks or nature are included when I decipher the photographs into drawings. The extraction of people are as they are, placed on a plain white background forming shapes, curves and lines created by the once given urban landscape. It is clear to see that the modern condition filtrates and creates systems of controlees flows that are articulated by time, stops and starts, masses and densities. It is by no means organic like the trails of sheep but controlled and organised. Bollards, traffic signalling, curb sides, crossings and street furniture dictate pools of activity.
As in the capitalist society, it is the popular culture, controlling systems and consumerism that provide the prevalent forces in my work. By discarding pictorial information (scenes) I am not hiding information, but instead try to reveal an unconscious necessity that the embodiment of the clothes we wear, the gear we have and the systems we adhere to within a certain place that reveal the very essence of a space, rather than its physical environment. Incidentally it also reveals to us in part, that we want and expect from a place, is in fact a sense of order control and convenience. We are after all a creature of habit.