Safe Passage

Safe Passage is an exploration of my city (London) on foot using bus routes as the conduits that transect this vast metropolis. Moments of chance for the most part and taken in the spirit of onward movement much like a river flows to the sea, no stopping, just a few eddies here and there before the flow resumes. My images are fragments seen at the edges of these conduits, out of the corner of my eye and on the periphery, no more than fleeting visions soon gone with no time to go back and recapture or relive.

Emotionally I am recapturing my city, re-learning the forgotten pleasures of childhood, when to walk was to be, when to walk was exploration, when to walk was the only way and journeys were secret stories made up of special signs, places and chance encounters. It is these memories and the essence of these memories that I evoke as I transect my city, bringing back the childhood joy of movement and the wash of life with objects seen, sometimes almost unseen but stored away for the future, secret memories.

Yet Tarkovsky’s films suggest our memories of deja vu are recollections of precognition. (Will Self)