Sheffield - Inverness

Route between Sheffield and Inverness Train Stations

2007

Over a twenty four hour period I traveled from Sheffield to Inverness and back again. The journey has many motivations yet was ultimately aimless; it was an exploration of travel.

The need or desire to be regularly on the move, to have a sense of multiple destinations ahead, is perhaps symptomatic of evolving relations to place in contemporary culture. Demands on time indicate specified places for work and for leisure, and allude to unknown destinations that these routines place just out of reach. A sense of elsewhere can be reached in those times away from time, in which we are restricted yet may allow ourselves to wander. These times, can occur often in the gaze out of a window and in the constantly decomposing image of outside with which we are faced during long journeys. When traveling there is a set purpose, reason, destination, but the route allows tangents of imaginary diversions to be taken. The journey is physically restricting and yet offers a freedom, non time, nowhere-ness, in which these origins and destinations can be contemplated.

The resulting work took the form of a video projected onto a window at night, though it’s role as document, composition or narrative was ambiguous