Dark Island Broadly the corporeal extent of any place exists between the material and immaterial. The opportunity to articulate these curious physical margins is being explored as a part of a growing series of mixed media works in the shadowed peripheral margins of the Olympics, Hackney Wick. Dark Island: Before collates and represents a state of on-going textural change in an area undergoing extreme urban renewal across the island of Hackney Wick between 27.02.11-16.09.11. Navigation lines traversing this obscure place between Victoria Park and the proposed Queen Elizabath Olympic Park, layers of materials are being superimposed. This form of attrition and aggregation of the new stimulate action and reaction physically and psycho-geographically. This publication is a point of reference for the experience of change and read in conjunction with twitter.com/@t_wickers, a virtual record of events, happenings and inconveniences experienced. These photographs have been concurrently taken to monitor and extrapolate change. Colin Priest
limited edition xerox print distributed at Hackney Wicked 2011
Dark Island Broadly the corporeal extent of any place exists between the material and immaterial. The opportunity to articulate these curious physical margins is being explored as a part of a growing series of mixed media works in the shadowed peripheral margins of the Olympics, Hackney Wick. Dark Island: Before collates and represents a state of on-going textural change in an area undergoing extreme urban renewal across the island of Hackney Wick between 27.02.11-16.09.11. Navigation lines traversing this obscure place between Victoria Park and the proposed Queen Elizabath Olympic Park, layers of materials are being superimposed. This form of attrition and aggregation of the new stimulate action and reaction physically and psycho-geographically. This publication is a point of reference for the experience of change and read in conjunction with twitter.com/@t_wickers, a virtual record of events, happenings and inconveniences encountered. These photographs have been concurrently taken to monitor and extrapolate change. Colin Priest
Dark Island Broadly the corporeal extent of any place exists between the material and immaterial. The opportunity to articulate these curious physical margins is being explored as a part of a growing series of mixed media works in the shadowed peripheral margins of the Olympics, Hackney Wick. Dark Island: Before collates and represents a state of on-going textural change in an area undergoing extreme urban renewal across the island of Hackney Wick between 27.02.11-16.09.11. Navigation lines traversing this obscure place between Victoria Park and the proposed Queen Elizabath Olympic Park, layers of materials are being superimposed. This form of attrition and aggregation of the new stimulate action and reaction physically and psycho-geographically. This publication is a point of reference for the experience of change and read in conjunction with twitter.com/@t_wickers, a virtual record of events, happenings and inconveniences encountered. These photographs have been concurrently taken to monitor and extrapolate change. Colin Priest 2012