Super-modern.

A few conclusive thoughts about the context/concept (some of which I may put into my little evaluation and exhibition description...)

I have been reading through 'Non-Places' and a little quote popped out at me...

'So it is with an image of EXCESS -EXCESS of TIME- that we can start defining the situation of Super-modern'

I think this is quite reflective of some elements of my project... I worked and thought about excess and mass in relation to the amount of non-places in Manchester and the old Telephone Exchanges; the link being communications :those that once had mass amounts of communications buzzing through and those which are now dead spaces, and the way we use non-places as a way of getting from a-b, which inextricably links to time: 

the time we spend in non-places, contrasted with the stitch which represents the hand-operated machines of once very much 'alive' and useful places, which no doubt took longer to operate (hence why they no longer exist).

The visual aspect of my work is (and hopefully still will be ) quite simple, plain, not overcomplicated and could go quite un-noticed, like the non-places we encounter everyday and the (most probably) overlooked telephone exchanges, and the amount of connections and numbers and masses and excesses that passed through every day since they opened.

I wanted to reflect the lost history of telephone exchanges, as they were interesting places and the strangeness of  the lost functions. I also wanted to think about non-places, because really, it is absurd how we use a lot of space on a day to day basis. Everything is a series: and according to Eva H, serial art is another way of repeating absurdity.

Links to another quote about interpreting, in which 'the world is being filled with an abundance of events demanding that each of us individually INTERPRET it all'. Hopefully this is my attempt to 'interpret' all of it.