Peripheries: Brindleyplace 2005
This image is from a continuing large project about capturing subjective impressions of the peripheries of city centres. It is one of a group taken over a period of time in a new flagship multi-purpose public square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham (Central England).
Barbara Downs is interested in the square’s changing quality. This can seem almost imaginary because of the way in which light subtly changes the environment at different moments. The buildings are real, but the atmosphere is fluid.
For fleeting moments the place represents a feeling, an idea - it is a prophecy of what it might be.
