Texture: London (work to home)
In this piece, Landre uses film to explore the textural, visual, and sonic experience of movement as a wheelchair user. Intended to function as a triptych, the three films can be viewed concurrently or as separate entities. Beyond its descriptive value, the piece also raises questions about the built environment as a determinant of human quality of life, and our responsibility to maintain it.
Visual description:
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen; only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving on the pavement. A smooth surface made of compressed gravel blurs underneath her wheels. Semi-circles of black tarmac come and go on the left of the screen at regular intervals as she moves forward. The pavement is stippled with leaves in various oranges and yellows.
00:30 – The pavement changes slightly after Anna rolls across a thin crack in it; it becomes darker and more varied in colour. . The black semi-circles still appear at regular intervals.
00:45 Anna gradually angles right, and the black semicircles move out of view. She moves over a white stripe that crosses the path.
00:51 Anna drives through a large puddle, her wheels pushing the water apart and interrupting the reflection of the sky and trees above her.
00:58 Anna drives over a tarnished metal drain cover. After another dividing
Visual description:
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen, only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey black wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving a serpentine route on the pavement, oblong grey paving bricks forming a mesmerising, repetitive geometric pattern diagonally across the screen. As she turns and drifts, the pattern within the frame shifts and changes.
00:10 Anna goes over a long, silver drainage track which moves, slanted, across the screen.
00:32 – Anna turns right, the pattern of the pavement then drifting diagonally left beneath her.
00:45 – She turns about 90 degrees left, the long lines of the bricks suddenly becoming parallel with the direction of her wheels.
Visual description:
Anna has attached the camera to the left side of her power wheelchair pointing at the ground. Most of the chair is off screen, only the mostly black chassis and two spinning grey black wheels are in shot, one large in the front and the other smaller in the back, rotating as she changes directions.
Anna is driving a serpentine route on the pavement, oblong grey paving bricks forming a mesmerising, repetitive geometric pattern diagonally across the screen. As she turns and drifts, the pattern within the frame shifts and changes.
00:10 Anna goes over a long, silver drainage track which moves, slanted, across the screen.
00:32 – Anna turns right, the pattern of the pavement then drifting diagonally left beneath her.
00:45 – She turns about 90 degrees left, the long lines of the bricks suddenly becoming parallel with the direction of her wheels.