A406/Architecture

I woke to to a heavy mist and decided one of the images I had in mind to shoot at night might actually suit this weather.I do plan to still shoot it at night and compare the options in the final edit.I was lucky to find another shot too,one I had been hoping to find at some point,it was actually very close by.These three images below explore the architecture of the road and the invasion of space.Similar to the work of Nick St Oegger’s work looking at the M4 extension opened in 1966,his project Bypassed also explores the physical effects of the architecture as well as the economic and environmental and the way that as effected the town of Port Talbot.Much like Nick I want to understand how living so close to the road and in particular where houses and shops and businesses have been demolished to accommodate it alters peoples lives for the positive as well as the negative.The Psychological landscape.

A406 . Dean Belcher

I particularly like the way the pillars mimic the two large entrance pillars on the original Lea valley flyover built in the 1920’s mile or two up the road which were knocked down when the road was widened (Image included) in the mid 1970s.The original flyover was the first of it’s kind to made of reinforced concrete.