digital video/photography
Collection, gathering, place, site, construction, infrastructure, urban
November 2022

What can I learn from paying attention to the urban infrastructure around me?

Parking garages used to terrify me. Sometimes they still do. When I was a child I did not watch much television because we did not own one, and then I saw a piece of a movie on a friend’s television where a group of children were trapped in an underground parkade where there was a bomb that was going to go off. I’m not sure if that’s why I’m afraid of them, or if it’s more due to my general fear of structural failure and being crushed under concrete (or worse, being trapped and slowly starving to death). As spaces, they are of interest to me since they are generally functional in design and designed to prioritize vehicles rather than humans. I look at them like I look at a horror movie – with apprehension, knowing that I may not like what I see, but knowing that I don’t truly have much more to fear from them than any other urban public space. Or do I?