4
Housed
Plant
4
Plant
Housed Plant explores the aspirations of living amongst green space in cities.
This piece draws parallels of John Betjeman’s ‘Metroland’ and East Village in Stratford as examples of constructed idyllic living ‘complexes’. Despite 100 years passage in time, it seemed both areas were built and marketed on a similar desire - the dream of living amongst nature.
I focused on a North London suburb along the Metropolitan line developed during Betjeman’s time and East Village. From the multiple visits to these sites, their identities, clearly in London yet somehow placeless, became prominent. An interest in the artificiality of interactions and satisfaction with these green spaces developed, and more contemporarily, questions regarding the true ownership of these spaces. This series of videos - Doorbells, John Clare and Indoor – traverse timelines to explore this discomfort, disjointedness, and questions of place and rootedness.
This piece draws parallels of John Betjeman’s ‘Metroland’ and East Village in Stratford as examples of constructed idyllic living ‘complexes’. Despite 100 years passage in time, it seemed both areas were built and marketed on a similar desire - the dream of living amongst nature.
I focused on a North London suburb along the Metropolitan line developed during Betjeman’s time and East Village. From the multiple visits to these sites, their identities, clearly in London yet somehow placeless, became prominent. An interest in the artificiality of interactions and satisfaction with these green spaces developed, and more contemporarily, questions regarding the true ownership of these spaces. This series of videos - Doorbells, John Clare and Indoor – traverse timelines to explore this discomfort, disjointedness, and questions of place and rootedness.
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three videos to be projected in shared space
doorbells - duration: 1:10 min
john clare - duration: 1:18 min
indoor - duration 1:38 min