Saturday 16 October 2010

Views from benches

Interrupted Views, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens


Here are some of the pictures from a piece of research we conducted this week. It explores how the way we currently live is very ordered and structured... Out lives are so controlled to the point where the way we act and the things we do have already been mapped in front of us.
All of the pictures in this series were taken while sitting in the centre of a park bench and aims to emphasize how even in an apparently unregulated location there is always structure. We placed a clock in and around the setting to try and emphasize the fact that we spend too much time within rigid control, only seeing what other people want us to see.We also received some great feedback from passers by, who would stand and try to guess the meaning behind the intervention.

Interrupted Views, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens

Interrupted Views, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens

Of course, no photography update from us would be complete without including an animal or two... so here's an action shot of a squirrel running in our direction after he noticed we had a bag of crisps to bribe him with!

Who are you? Edinburgh Botanic Gardens

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