A ‘North London / Caspian Sea’ Daydream Crisis

"Objects paranoid about their place in the visible world would run up and down overhead power lines at Finsbury Park. Dipping in an out of parts of the Electromagnetic Spectrum, a surge in electric current would cause the object to overlay the qualities of another space on-top of the bus terminal. Exotic places full of nostalgia and poetry, of qualities 'light' and 'dark' that echoed and inspired the object and its emotionless black-hole of a home. And so the rim of the Caspian Sea was laid over the station forecourt and railway lines. Diesel fluid and grease mixed with freshwater, saltwater and gypsy folklore. The terminal seemed to be in constant turmoil; buses, trains, subway all knotting their way together through a chaotic social fog. Communities live side-by-side with equal amounts of loathing and belonging. Finsbury Park became exotic again"

At the time of making this piece of work I lived above an Halal meat shop very close to Finsbury Park Station and desperately wanted to be somewhere else. I discovered a series of photographs of the Caspian Sea by Reza, an Iranian photographer working for National Geographic. Entitled "The Fall and Rise of the Caspian Sea", each photograph documented the landscape fractured and dispersed between the three states that governed the Caspian region. All three governing states had emerged from the old Soviet Union and the land was now suffering from corruption and subsequently a poor economy. The Caspian Sea is the world's largest natural lake yet it's very being is conflicted with both freshwater and saltwater mixing in various places. The rim of the the sea also acts as a vital source of Oil and Gas for the west. The romantic landscape is rich with natural phenomena yet fractured by the countries surrounding it. It could be argued that it acts very much like North London and in particular the terminal at Finsbury Park, a tumultuous landscape pushed together and pulled apart by its inhabitants, it's naturally conflicted nature echoed by the lives of those living there. The idea and story link these two places together with science and narrative; Quantum Theory, Electromagnetic Fields and a Bus stop.

The project takes place in three distinct sections:
1. Tuneable prosthetics
2. The Faraday Hood (From North London to The Caspian Sea)
3. Trauma furniture (Made In Nowhere for Everywhere)