Lost in Transit.
This project is part of Lost in Transit exhibition at Impressions Gallery Bradford. The project is a result of continuing visits to a certain place in and around ‘Post 47’ on the M62, where I had a serious near death car accident. The project was not driven by portraying the obvious fear and realities of that event; it was to consider what that landscape said to me afterwards. This is a point in the landscape I will always be connected to, connected to an event I will never fully understand. The photographs shift in focus, destabilising any notion of fixed security, clarity.
"Trauma is not a memory but an overwhelming event that was never 'experienced' during it's occurrence because the force of the 'shock' incapacitated ego-consciousness. The survivors memory is compromised by the defined action that carries the psyche beyond the violence of the traumatic vent. The survivor of a car crash cannot recall what actually happened because during the crash physical mechanisms of withdrawl, numbing, or hypnotic immersion were mobilised to carry the subject through the force of the event as an ego-shattering 'wound'. In turn because the event has not been 'recorded' in memories storage it roams the unconscious with no fixed abode - trauma literally takes possession of the psyche against the will of one of its inhabitants."
Cathy Caruth, 'Trauma: Explorations of Memory'
There is an accompanying film installation 'Post 47' in my film section of my website. This was also shown at Impressions Gallery and Vinery Street gallery London.
