This drawing attempts to reveal crystallization along a path, the growth through time and projected into future. The form is contained by a geographical fossil - the service area for the East London Reservoir in 1886, the line of the Thames is echoed long the southern edge.
From one instant in time, multiple paths branch out as history branches out. And different outcomes are imagined on each branch. The paths also fold back on themselves and the crystal attempts to affect its earlier states. The paths could also be collaborative.
In conversation Nigel Cook mentioned the road layout of London is similar to paths made by children across a paddock. If you imagine farm buildings set around a paddock, how children, when running from one to the other, slowly etch dirt paths into the grassy field.
It could also be useful to look at the spaces between the paths, the analogy being these spaces are like the city blocks and buildings of London, constrained in plan by the non-orthagonal street map.
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