A day-long pinhole camera survey of sites of straightness, vision and occlusion in Preston. One can almost hear Foucault chuckle as the vector of Watling Street conjoins barracks, hospital and church in an axis that has maintained its utility since Roman times. The gladed arrow of Moor Park Avenue leads to the University's Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory and indicates the proximity of Much Hoole whose church he turned into a pinhole camera to observe the transit of Venus in front of the sun. The dormant subterranean void of the Miley Tunnel contrasts with the animated UCLAN cluster above it. Representing the circuit of academic aspiration the pristine perpendicular lines of the Media Factory replace the corroding rails in the Miley's transgressive shadow.
A pinhole camera survey of Preston's Maudlands attempts to plot the coincident geometry of sight and structures.
Parallel projected photographs enact the conceit of inhabiting the transformative interior of the camera.
In counterpoising positive and negative, inverse and reverse, we can speculate about what other transmutations might occur in this alternate spectral reality of dark light and radiant shadows.
Below: the aperture of the Miley tunnel discloses a wormhole of dormant volume beneath the UCLAN cluster.
The gravitation of this bypassed cthonic aorta engulfs the camera's vision.
Above: the vertices of the Media Factory project beyond the perpendicular rationale of institutional utility. Converging in a distant singularity, they re-infiltrate the dark rooms of their conception.
