SHINKAN
In Transit.
What happens to our relationship with a landscape when we move through it at high speed?
The speed of the Shinkansen compresses geographical distance while rearranging the experience of places along the way. This project follows the resulting questions through observations, sketches, moving images and photographic transduction.
Three spaces, one journey
Travelling on the Shinkansen, my body remains almost still inside a moving carriage. Outside, the nearby world passes rapidly while the far horizon appears to endure.
I begin to distinguish between my inner sense of space, the space in which I travel and the space through which I travel — horizons I experience together but cannot easily reconcile.
The journey is not silent
The train’s hum and vibration persist while the landscape slips from sight. What if these sonic conditions could participate in the photographic formation of the scene passing outside?
The project is both a visual enquiry into the experience of travel and an ongoing experiment in how a camera, microphone and computational apparatus might register some of the relations of that journey.
Another relation.
Not a next step in a sequence, but something this encounter shares with work elsewhere.
RESEARCH / SHINKAN
From the journey to the apparatus
The observations continue through sketches, experiments and decisions about photographic formation.
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WORK / UNFIXING HORIZONS
A photograph not entirely fixed
A related investigation of the conditions through which an image appears and is encountered.
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