2014
Photographic archival print on rag paper
Series, 4 No. 400 x 400 mm
Part of a collection of photographs entitled ‘Interface’. This series explores the decay and regeneration of the land that lies alongside interfaces in Belfast. Wastelands used as buffer zones morph into non-places that erase a problematic history. Car parks, supermarkets, roads and business parks are used as a useful tool to separate contentious areas of land.
Blank spaces that were created by the conflict are being in-filled. Car parks, supermarkets, roads and business parks are used as buffers to drive post-conflict Belfast forwards. Yet these new spaces could be anywhere, they are placeless visions of a distant utopia far removed from the reality of a city blighted by sectarian divides.