Moving forward

So my initial plan this year, was to return and attempt the project again in the same area, however I found my self aimlessly wandering around with a camera and losing focus again.

I had a bit of a realization during one of my other modules. The scenes that I was trying to depict were really run down and had a large level of redundancy to them. This is always going to make for very solitary, cold, and depressing scenes. Despite the looming renovations there was very little interaction with the space. This distance from human interaction means there is not anyway for the project to develop.. It is what it is.. an empty space.

As I made mention earlier I had a realization. That stemmed from two images I took on a field lecture.

Both of these images where taken on the boarders of a town (top one Cheltenham and bottom one Gloucester).

Top Image..
The thing that really struck me about this image was the many different elements that where present. Firstly the burned out car, shows on one level consumerism and the throw away culture and also the aspirational element.. I want that, I can't afford it.. I'll take yours. further more the fact its still there. The car has obviously been there a long time by the fact the grass has all grown back.
The field was once farmed and is now left. Evidence of economic downturn?
The hedge in the back ground making of land boundaries..

I could go on. Shortly after taking this image we engaged in conversation with a resident who's estate backed onto this field. She was upset at the idea of town planners building on the land.
This area is part of the green belt surrounding Cheltenham, Green Belt land is an interesting place, because people believe that they own a stake in it and that it must be protected and preserved when the reality is that its mostly waste land that serves only as good dog walking ground and prevention against urban sprawl.

This is the shift that my project is now going to undertake. instead of looking at an area that is personal to me. I am going to do a full circle walking around the outskirts of a town, right on the boarder of human habitation and photograph what lies in this buffer zone and how people interact with it.