Bridge
Down hill
Junction
City/suburb/town
Right turn
Tunnel
During my initial research I have been inspired by different aspects and ways of illustrating travel and time as motion.
I have experimented with travelling as a “space lapse” sequence like Mauritius Seeger, but in order to play with the idea of gathering the character of different moments, I searched for a technique to abstract the result of a time lapse sequence of travel.
During a trip around the North Island, I started photographing the road and surroundings through the front window of the car. As the whole journey was very characterized by getting quite fast from A to B I gained my main impression of the Island through the landscape and cityscapes in this window frame while driving.
What really interested me was the possibility of grouping different situations of surroundings to unify the character of the moments.
When driving, the surroundings kept on changing, while the road remained the constant factor. Because of this, I found it logical to group the pictures in terms of the constant; the form/type of the road. I found that the situations: Bridge, up/down hill, junction, city/suburb/town, right/left turn and tunnel together could describe the flow of the whole journey.
In my process I have experimented with an interaction between Photoshop editing and time lapse sequence work in Premiere 5. At the end I found that overlapping between 30-50 photos from each situation in Photoshop could merge the surrounding moments while travelling into a series of abstract time related situations.
My attempt has been to abstract an overall impression of my journey through a series of unified situations in the moving surroundings. The understanding of each merged surrounding depends of the way we recognise the constant elements like the type and form of the road, signs, structure, marks etc. in the overall composition.
