
Tag: road
Margate: Places, Spaces, Heterotopia I









We arrived in Margate the first week of April, well out of the season so it was really empty, especially in the morning.
In my course we studied the difference between images and pictures, things and objects, spaces and places; where the first item in each pair merely is, whereas the latter has some human significance or meaning.
A heterotopia, again according to Wikipedia, is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow ‘other’: disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming. Heterotopias are worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside. In my limited experience of reading about heterotopia, the term is extremely elastic, not to say nebulous, in the way it’s thrown about in art criticism.
Click any image to see them all full-sized.
Frosty Lane
On the Road
BQE
Rainy Ride
Morning Traffic
The Open Road
Sunrise in the South
Rainy Roadscape
Early Morning Autumn Sun
Deep Grammar
The Long and Winding Road
Foggy Morning Road
Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania
LollaBamboozle
Christmas in The Bronx
Leaf and Lilac
Scene of the Crime
Grate
Morning Fog
took this one riding my bike no-handed on my morning 10-mile schlep to Strathmere and back.