WASTELAND (1)
This book is about the way a person sees a place, through invisible interactions and predictions, made by curiosity to finding new places. This is not a correct or accurate representation of an area, but rather an image created based on personal views and gathered information by the explorer.
Wasteland is an ongoing project about creating a visual body of work exploring time, space and self-reflection of a singular experience. Through new and old areas. The book is constructed into 4 different times throughout the day - including poems to create a very particular sense of being within those spaces. The layout reflects the environment and pace of how the experience occurs within each found space, whilst the imagery helps to create a more visual story of the interaction of said spaces.
From getting lost between public and private places, to isolating yourself into the hidden spaces behind the main roads. This book is a result of sudden isolation from a common afternoon walk, to an experience of vulnerability and being fragile in new and old routes. Revisiting old memories from past events, to creating new ones from the time spent there.
I wanted this small book to be an object frozen in time. There is only so much you can explore within the structure of how a book is presented. Using the default shape of 4 different sides, all facing away and each other at the same time. I took this in as an initial foundation of how I can translate a very much 4D experience, to a flat structure that is the pages of this book.
Creating a key to the placement of each element, helped me create a language that could reflect all the senses that I experienced while on the walk. From the pace of my walking, to the sudden thoughts created while passing the streets and the cropped images reflecting the quick glimpses that we have while passing by everyday places.
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