Thursday 5 January 2012

A hybrid liminal space

An usual space:

Hardwick Place was once a street just off Garstang Road, near the bus station. Left for many years it has become something of a hybrid of liminal and 'adopted' free space. It was quietly managed by locals who have put a few plants in near to their back yards. Evidence of the past street is clear. Bollards line up and a sign throws a null and void warning.




The image reminds me of a 'garden centre' in the centre of Manchester. An unlikely location, but something about it is reminiscent of Eugene Atget's Zone in Paris. Although both images conduct slightly separate issues about the paradigms of space they are collectively inhabiting the same debates of dilemmas that are cohesive to the arguments.








Locked gates

Locked gates

Bridge at Vernon's

Bridge at Vernon's

Percy St, Preston

Percy St, Preston
Once: a social club

Church St tiled walls

Church St tiled walls

Wasteland

Wasteland