Poster from event Invisible Cities in association with Osman Yousefzada, Selfridges and BCU
'Space is not visual.....no line separates earth from sky' (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, 494)
Photograph of collaborative map piece for Invisible Cities (Front)
Photograph of collaborative activity for Invisible Cities (Back), showing participants' postcard responses
This project was a development informed by my previous research Place of Solace, on how people engaged with public green space during the pandemic. The project ran as part of Invisible Cities; an initiative run in association with Selfridges and artist Usman Yousefzadar. Participants were asked to write on a postcard the answer to the question "Where was a place of comfort to you during lockdown?" A map of Birmingham was used as a stimulus and for participants to colour in, or circle, to highlight the area they chose.
Group activity with Osman Yousefzada
Workshop space within the Selfridges shopping mall
'Birmingham Beermats', photographic work exhibited at Invisible Cities.
My work 'Birmingham Beermats' was also displayed at the event, which encouraged viewers to see if they could identify parts of the city from upward-looking shots; highlighting the rich diversity of Birmingham's architecture and history. The original idea of the images being printed on beermats was to create something viewers could potentially take with them, from a venue, around the city, where they could reproduce the images shown themselves on social media.
