Le Flâneur

La Petite Ceinture in Paris is a railway and a landscape in limbo, a biodiversity corridor around the edges of the city.

Over the last few years I have been exploring how to translate some of my projects into book form, here are some examples

Action or Extinction. Three words on a billboard, made me look at my daily commute in a different way.
I started looking at the street below in a different way. Out of the shadows and the murky windows emerged oddly de-populated spaces — only to be replaced by the hordes emerging from the caves and streets below.

‘A tale of two Swannes’ a journey along the Lea, exploring London’s second river via a non-linear route, criss-crossing the Lea Valley from wetlands to urban edgelands and beyond – a journey of discovery.

Borders define the spaces in-between — the crossing points from one place to another. Following the course of London’s second river, the Lea, I’ve discovered the series of edgelands — real, historical and mythological that occur along it’s path.

This is a commuter’s perspective of London – a passing view of the city defined by the top deck of a London bus. It’s a familiar streetscape caught in a series of momentary glances as the bus lurches and sways to its destination.

While we may know the Thames, the Lea, London’s second river is perhaps less familiar. Yet it has its own history and identity – walking along its towpaths you discover a constantly managed space that has been re-constructed and diverted since the 12th Century.

I’ve been walking the same Paris streets and re-tracing my steps countless times to observe the ephemeral and the permanent of the street art of the city. While Mosko et Associés prowling tigers at Villa de L’Ermitage are long gone the urban tigers at Rue des Rosiers remain much as I first found them in 2006 – though someone has added ‘nature strikes back’ over the original work.