A walking sketchbook of London, 2021
Marks, signs, stencils and small discards lifted from London's kerbs — photographed at street level, isolated, and titled by the GPS coordinate of the block where each was found.
Each dot is a piece, placed where its source was photographed. Pan, zoom, click. Want to see the source? Walk to the coordinates — it might still be there.
Every page of the sketchbook, by neighbourhood. The title is the coordinate.
I walked and photographed what was already there: a stop sign stretched by perspective, a yellow paint blob next to a triangular crack, a stencil repeated until it loses its meaning. The work is the act of noticing, then the act of removing everything else.
Prints are produced in editions of ten, signed and numbered. Each carries a small note with its coordinate and the date the source was photographed.
Open editions
Archival giclée, A3 / A2 / A1, paper of your choice.
Signed editions
Numbered 1–10, signed by the artist.
Kerbside Sketchbook — the book
96 pages, offset-printed, 250 × 350mm. In preparation.
Enquiries: alexander.mcbear@gmail.com