Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Desire Lines an Exploration.

DESIRE LINES:

A path that marks the human impact on landscape, that bears no correlation to the provided concrete pathways, a path that is chosen by people walking in their environment.

Despite the clearly accessible concrete paths provided by the council,Desire Paths/lines have been created. 


(Embankment Road, Plymouth)

(Western Approach, Plymouth)
(Oreston, Plymouth)

There are hundreds of these paths in and around Plymouth (the city I am currently living in.) I am slowly collecting photographic evidence of this phenomenon. The story of the human desire fascinates me, these paths are a semi permanent trace of our existence, our desires, our impact.  My intention is to expand on this initial fascination, for the moment a visual diary, eventually becoming an independent artistic statement.

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