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What exists at the margins of our towns and cities, in the overlooked and the ignored space of the in between? What do we speed by, on a daily basis, hardly noticing or just disregarding as the backdrop to our busy lives? I am interested in these edge places, the ambiguous areas that exists on the outskirts, somewhere in between our imagined countryside and the urban centres. Where just beyond our houses and streets we come into contact with the less ordered more chaotic landscape of the edge, where the boundaries between the cultivated and the wild become blurred and indistinguishable. What stories prosper here and what thoughts and interactions do these places encourage or repel? Within my work I seek to encounter these places, concerned with the potential this ‘semi-wild’ landscape can offer us for an analyse of our social and psychological experience of our everyday landscapes. What does our relationship with these spaces tell us about ourselves and our social values and understanding? Through a multi-disciplinary practice exploring an analytical and methodical process of cataloguing, drawing and mapping, combined with the more subjective approach of the poetical and fantastical, I attempt to draw conclusions from these places, examining what they might reveal of the complex relationship we have with our spatial environment. |
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©Christina Bryant 2011 |
