Weathering
Built specifically for us, tailored to our needs the city should be a perfect environment for all of those who live in one.
The city is a mirror for the society that lives in it. As we move around creating a groove to fit our shape. However there
not
always a perfect fit.There is a jet lag, a tension round the edges, a slight rubbing.
These photographs are of human weathering. Where there has been a building up or wearing down over time.
A spill or a scratch, a dent or a bump. Hotspots disguised in the everyday.
Where traces of an imperfect relationship become visible.
As I travel through the city I carry a camera to document what I see, down A roads and alleyways, winding through side streets, under bridges and across car parks.
I am searching for a palimpsest, a trace of human influence that wears upon the environment of the city,
human weathering,
exposing the cracks, degradations and imperfections in the way that this environment we have built for ourselves exists and functions.
With and against us, wearing away;
growing shadows.