London Bridge, bridge

(2020)

Woodberry, diving

(2019)

Woodberry, swan

(2019)

Woodberry, living

(2019)

Tottenham, spheres

(2019)

Tottenham cloudy

(2019)

Tottenham, playground

(2019)

Tree three: Decap

(2019)

Tree two: Boundary-setting

(2019)

Tree one: Private, public, imaginary

(2019)

2. Encryption, Production, Transmission

(2019)

1. Business as Usual

(2019)

Peer-reviewed and Peer-destroyed: The Street Arts of Tottenham

We are used to single foci of power when it comes to art: directors, curators, conductors. In this photographic series we explore a very different production process - a decentralized artistic structure involving anyone that happens to pass by. How these structures of communities operate remain a mystery as only the end products are visible. At these sites of interaction, communal narratives crash over each other following a timeline stretching indefinitely into the future, allowing plenty of time for the placing of objects, paints and tools. The works thus require an ongoing army of creative actors on these street-canvases, at the margins, of the law, and the walls.

4. Dustcart avoiding what’s gonna happen with a right turn / Downhills Park / Road

(2019)

3. Making and cracking relationships / Love Lane

(2019)

2. Not on a match day / High Road

(2019)

1. Fruits and creeks, horizontal style / Mount Pleasant Road

(2019)

Where Urban Planning Meets Public Affections: Road Names, Responses, Unintended Air

Factoid #1: It has been a taboo to display ‘too much’ emotion in public places.

Factoid #2: High-sounding / Unfortunate road names can affect property prices.

After analyzing places and every street name around Tottenham, I investigate all these roads with suggestive, emotive names (besides ‘High Road’). Each of the roads is given one chance to display the feeling they’re designated with. By remembering how people respond to road signs in creative ways, each work presents an interactive process – what it’s like when official names and unofficial life choices mingle and get declared out loud.