Richard Wentworth's images are a perfect example of psychogeography, the idea of looking closer at the smaller details of our environment. The Caledonian Road series gives us an insight to his everyday surroundings and the components which would usually be overlooked.
The photographs feel quite sculptural, this is a different approach to photographing "rubbish" unlike Keith Arnnatt's images, Wentworth photographs the objects as he finds them. it's interesting how similar objects can be represented in an entirely new light, and in turn shifts the reading and messages contained within the work. I like these images because they tell tales of the people who live in Wentworth's neighbourhood, they have a feeling of human presence and displaces traces of their interaction with the landscape, at the same time they have undertones of consumer habits and present this idea of disposables and waste. Definitely a project of interest to me, i think it would nice too look at a variety of different locations to observe how the amount of, and what kind of disposed/unwanted objects can be found, and if they speak of the people who interact with the locations?
"Sculptor and photographer, urban explorer, walker and talker, Richard Wentworth has lived in King's Cross for some 25 years.
Wentworth's work is an ongoing conversation with his native habitat, fuelled by daily walks down the Caledonian Road and expeditions into the hinterlands of King's Cross. In photographs, objects and lectures he charts the contours of the inner city, the ebb and flow of urban life, the things that change and the things that never do."
(http://www.artangel.org.uk//projects/2002/an_area_of_outstanding_unnatural_beauty/about_the_project/an_area_of_outstanding_unnatural_beauty)
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