CITY PAVEMENT

For this ongoing photo essay I set myself the challenge of mindfully walking the streets in my neighbourhood to carefully notice my surroundings. I am looking for tiny stories that lie around me; a banana peel left behind (absent-mindedness, carelessness, laziness?); a pillar next to a parking space that has experienced a thousand bumps; a homemade car repair. I treat it as free-associating visual poetry in my head where I can let one ‘story’ lead me to another, each one provoking stories in my mind. I like the way that parkourists (or traceurs more accurately) engage with and navigate urban environments, conceptualising their own pathway through a space in expressive ways. I think about this photography as a kind of visual parkour. I can bounce from one image to the next and find ways if being in the city outside of my commute or other utilitarian journeys from A to B.