I had planned just to do circles and rectangles, visualy reflecting TE's (switchboards) and non spaces- repetition and all that.
And I really think they work. Which is excellent, because I have been having a few thinking troubles lately...
It led on to me thinking more about the history of the TE's as I did start to look at them right at the start, and so I have come full circle. Back to the very first thing I printed out. Sigh.
In a man-made nutshell;
-First exchanges in Manchester very important
-Began with manual switchboards, lots of women perched on chairs manually connecting calls...
-In 1881: 420 subscribers, 400 miles of wire and one day in March, there were 430 phone calls! (all this information is especially handy, as I have been trying to find some numbers/ some way of mapping, making maths=space, something like that etc...)
Visually the TE's get quite interesting which is where my laser cutting fits in. Handy.
These top two, actually Manchester. Exciting.
The buildings themselves, especially the last one, look like sculptures and remind me very much of swedish/finnish artwork I have seen...
LINKS to non spaces and dead places- now, there are not as many functions, had a history, unlike many non places. BOTH now dead, or condensed in purpose, both responsible thousands of connections and social interactions, lonely places, waiting places, spending time.
Making things that have no function, has lost function, dead function, suggests function? Represent these places..
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