Finsbury Park to Holborn - and back

Developing the spiral format - it's morphing into mazes.

Finsbury Park to Lancaster Gate

Spiral journey lines written in a double-fold accordion book with cover printed with (raised) horizontal journey lines.

Southwark Town Hall to Trafalgar Square

Spiral journey lines, each between two bus stops, added to a book made with printed (raised) journey lines on the cover. Solid circles indicate that the bus stopped in traffic. This bus, meant to go to Oxford Circus, terminated early - the driver said "Listen folks, I just had a call, I'm going to transfer you - there's a 12 just behind".

New Cross to Southwark Town Hall

Highbury to New Cross

King's Cross to Finsbury Park

This new format (trialled in my reflective journal, on happening to get a seat on the tube) arose after I read this by Louise Bourgeois:

"...to rewind is to make a spiral. And the action demonstrates that even though time is unlimited, there is a limit to how much you can put on it. As you are tightening the spiral you must take care.

"If you tighten too much you risk breaking it. It is the same with sewing.

"Sewing without a knot at the end of the thread is not sewing. In this sense the spiral is a metaphor of consistency. I am consistent in my spiral. For me there is no break. There is never an interruption in the spiral because I cannot stand interruptions."

(quoted in Louise Bourgeois, The Fabric Works, Skira, 2010, p140; from a conversation with Paulo Herkenhoff in Louise Bourgeois eds Robert Storr, Paulo Herkenhoff and Allan Schwartzman; Phaidon, 2003, p12)

Holborn to St Giles Church, Camberwell

First page of "reflective journal" for the book arts course.

Interchange

Commercial / Broadway interchange of the Skytrain's Millenium and Expo lines, Vancouver.

Three journeys

Skytrain, Millennium line; bus 25 along King Edward; Skytrain to Lougheed Town Centre, 23 and 24 September. A $2.50 ticket allows 90 minutes of travel, including transfers.

Written on the road

Asphalting over the cracks. Ford Road, Pitt Meadows, BC.

Train journey

East Coast line to Aberdeen, ScotRail to Huntly. Seat reservation tickets, each between two stations; pen, and pencil; Saturday 4 September and Monday 6 September.

Stairs to platform level