1. Infancy 

(2018)

site: Bruce Castle

Blooming through Life: Explorations in Competing Urban Spatial Discourse is a series of three photographs depicting how architectures in Tottenham struggle between existence and neglect with the short-lived dandelion flower (withering within the day to produce the cypselae) acting as the subject of observation as an allegorical device. It challenges our self-conception as agents of humanism, annoying procreating weeds, genetic machines or symbols of romance and passion. In the three works the blossom is paired with Bruce Castle, The High Cross and Apex House. The petals face 1516°, 2018° and 2016° from north respectively, representing at least one point in time that they’re to be remembered (the year first mentioned in records to date; reopened as a pub; borough granted permission to demolish). The positioning of the pot alludes to average tendencies in modern political spectrum, behaviorism and personality theory. It is towards the end of the life cycle that the floret, representing ourselves, becomes more visible, but the ‘future’ construction works that crush upon our dead bodies are fuzzy and forever beyond imagination.

Editor's note: The Blooming through Life: Explorations in Competing Urban Spatial Discourse series was first published in Tottenham Community Press (Sep 2018).