From Tarmac to Towpath: Excursions into Lockdown: From Tarmac to Towpath - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1838091521 ISBN 13: 9781838091521

Publisher: Chroma Editions, 2021

Synopsis

From Tarmac to Towpath: Excursions into Lockdown is a collection of works created on the streets of London, Lancashire, Cumbria, Newcastle, Glasgow and the Firth of Forth when the UK was in Lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Featuring text and images from 13 artists across the UK, a document of traces emerges formed of spectral walks, psychogeographical encounters, eerie geometries, deserted towpaths, former railway lines, discarded masks, ghostly enclaves and sudden verdures. While boundaries dissolve, everything is muffled and haunted, desperate for re-connection. Dust, rust and peeling paint triggers acknowledgement of hyperawareness. Stunned side streets and somnolent houses (evoked by Graham Greene as, 'the unfamiliar shadows of half-things, broken things, former things') are amongst many captured moments that remind us of the unprecedented emotions and events of life in lockdown.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chroma Editions
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838091521
• ISBN 13: 9781838091521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Banning David, Hyde Julian