A digitally communicated narrative with three ingredients - myself, my shoes, and the natural underworld of the University of Utah's Legacy Bridge - crafted from observations of human-object interactions & qualities of place.
Following observation is the documentation of the space via photography, a physical collage self-portrait, & then digital visual communication in Photoshop. In my narrative, I explore how, beneath the bridge’s staircase, visitors are surrounded by the absurd contradiction of wild vegetation (intentionally planted but now untamed) contained in concrete.
Under the Bridge - Final
Statement - "Once beneath the staircase of Legacy Bridge, the visitor finds themselves surrounded by both wild vegetation – intentionally planted but now untamed – and concrete. Like the illicit litter left behind, it feels ‘against the rules’ to be here.
This contained world is exposed but private: visible but not noticed. The external world is observable but muted: accessible yet distant in feeling.
By positioning the soft wilderness in contrast to the harsh, artificial concrete, I hope to capture the absurdity of a place ‘visible but unseen’ & ‘contained but wild’: the concrete nest conveys both the contradiction of an exposed enclosure and the act of containing the untamed.
In my role as a visitor, I bridge these binaries - I’m a human contained within artificial apparel – but I also emphasize them: my manmade shoes, like the concrete, trap and impose upon the wilderness below."
Process:
Experiential documentation
Legacy Bridge - The University of Utah
Photography
Analog Iterations
