These pieces are another attempt to reflect the city centre, not just the individual buildings but the streetscape and spaces between them. I am happier with these than previous forms, they seem to reflect something about the essence of the scale and density of the city landscape. At least as far as I perceived it when I first visited the city centre.
I have either approached the buildings independently, and not been content with the results, of either open nor closed forms, as they have been stand alone. I have tried groupings to allow the spaces between pieces to reflect the city grid, but these pieces have been too geometric, and have not reflected the individual buildings. I have missed the density and jaggedness of the building frontages, jostling together for every inch of valuable space against the pavement. I have tried closed forms and like the sculptural abstract shapes, buy they seemed only part of the complex picture, without their 'neighbours'.
In the last couple of weeks I have managed to merge together some of the things I like about the closed forms, with the variability of the street frontages, as well as the spaces around, and through, that are such a part of the city centre. I think these are interesting, they include the best parts of my other pieces, and they reflect my vision better. I feel there is scope to develop these further in terms of texture and colour.
Images from my research trip. I ran through all the streets above, on my way to school each day from age eleven upwards.
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