The video images are taken from journeys by train, car or the movement of the eye around the city. Lines divide up the picture space to emphasis the movement of time in the film.
He explains: "In each of these pieces I made a video of a city space, edited it and built up the layers of line and then replaced the pictorial image with a white layer. In this way I was able to explore the language of the line itself.”
“It has become the whole image thus enabling me to use different colours, weights and angles. The rhythms that have been created need no emphasis from extra lines to signify clock time."
The two artists may have approached the question of journeying through the landscape in different ways, but at the heart of both their works lies the same human experience of the world that surrounds us - and how we encounter it and travel across it in our daily lives.
