Time Lapse
I got into the idea of doing something that changed a little bit every day, so that people who passed by regularly might think, “Was that there yesterday?” or, “Has that moved?”. Maybe not notice it at all at first, until it began to change. An out-of-the-corner-of-your-eye type thing. A very slow animation.
I was able to install all of these at quiet times, so mostly, no one knew who was doing it. It’s nice to be anonymous, so the work can stand alone.
BUS STOP
I chose my bus stop, a busy one in the centre of Bristol. I built an animation there at 2pm every day for a month. The first day some tiny pink and white plasticene cones appeared in a corner. The next day they had grown. Every day they grew in size and number, turning redder, they streamed across the surface of the bus stop, to congregate on the other side. There, they leaned out towards groups of blue and yellow colonies growing on the nearby lamp post and litter bin. Three large cones leaped across, into the midst of a neighbouring colony, where they were encircled by contrasting lengthening cones which curled around them like sea creatures. Tiny balls of a new colour appeared at their bases, travelling to the tips, and then vanishing. The cones sank back into the bus stop and disappeared. The next day, on 47 nearby bus stops, lamp posts and bins, tiny groups of coloured cones appeared.
The plasticene had always gone by the next day. One day someone had made a tiny pair of tits. I wonder what the rest of it became.
HOMEGROWN
The local community noticeboard announces it’s upcoming harvest festival. The notices ‘grow’ over the week.
THE MOVING STORY OF KINGSDOWN
A new noticeboard appears in the street and hosts the entire history of the local area, from the big bang to sometime in the future, a new episode appearing every day for a month.
