A Sense of Someplace

Lindsay Perth

I get lost in other people’s bygone adventures and pasts and revive them as impossible places and suspicious times.

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Each image is made from two found 35mm film slides. I remove the slides from the mounts and trawl my slide collection for two images that reveal new narratives. If a pair have a kind of rhyme to them, I remount them and I project them onto a screen and look at them in detail. When this close inspection would show that there is no ‘story’, I would start again.

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I work in this manner until I successfully create a composite which offers a new narrative, one that visually provokes a scene or place that feels familiar and yet is impossible. It can take a long time before I make one that reveals an ‘other’. The two slides – witnesses of their own unique time and place – make a new single image with a tilted nostalgia. You see a photo where time and place feel adrift.

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© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

Sometimes these images have an unrealistic beauty of places we can never experience, others have a silent melancholy. And in many, there is a sense of loss and entropy, even an anxiety. Perhaps it’s a distrust of their ambiguous ‘truth’.

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© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

The 35mm slides belong to found family archives at car boot sales. Many are given, some I buy online or save from bins. Increasingly find them on my doorstep. I have become known as the ‘Slide Woman’ with people sending me slides from as far as Los Angeles.

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© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

I get lost in other people’s bygone adventures and pasts and revive them as impossible places and suspicious times.

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About
Lindsay Perth, (Edinburgh, U.K.) is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, originally from Canada. She is an artist/designer with a studio practice and works as a socially engaged artist, currently designing wayfinding and outdoor creative experiences for patients at Leverdanle Hospital, Glasgow. Perth's work is both analogue and digital, often reworking existing and found materials or designing and building responsive artworks or video art installations.
Recent awards include the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2019 for her interactive handblown glass light installation for PACC's Atrium in Muirhouse, Edinburgh.
Perth’s art practice is concerned with the vulnerabilities, strengths and vigour of the human condition. A common thread in Perth’s work is a preoccupation with states, spaces and public realm characterised by flux, passage and transfer.
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August 8, 2023
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A Sense of Someplace

Lindsay Perth

I get lost in other people’s bygone adventures and pasts and revive them as impossible places and suspicious times.

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Lindsay Perth

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August 8, 2023
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I get lost in other people’s bygone adventures and pasts and revive them as impossible places and suspicious times.
© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

Each image is made from two found 35mm film slides. I remove the slides from the mounts and trawl my slide collection for two images that reveal new narratives. If a pair have a kind of rhyme to them, I remount them and I project them onto a screen and look at them in detail. When this close inspection would show that there is no ‘story’, I would start again.

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© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

I work in this manner until I successfully create a composite which offers a new narrative, one that visually provokes a scene or place that feels familiar and yet is impossible. It can take a long time before I make one that reveals an ‘other’. The two slides – witnesses of their own unique time and place – make a new single image with a tilted nostalgia. You see a photo where time and place feel adrift.

‍

© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

Sometimes these images have an unrealistic beauty of places we can never experience, others have a silent melancholy. And in many, there is a sense of loss and entropy, even an anxiety. Perhaps it’s a distrust of their ambiguous ‘truth’.

‍

© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

The 35mm slides belong to found family archives at car boot sales. Many are given, some I buy online or save from bins. Increasingly find them on my doorstep. I have become known as the ‘Slide Woman’ with people sending me slides from as far as Los Angeles.

‍

© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

I get lost in other people’s bygone adventures and pasts and revive them as impossible places and suspicious times.

‍

About
Lindsay Perth, (Edinburgh, U.K.) is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, originally from Canada. She is an artist/designer with a studio practice and works as a socially engaged artist, currently designing wayfinding and outdoor creative experiences for patients at Leverdanle Hospital, Glasgow. Perth's work is both analogue and digital, often reworking existing and found materials or designing and building responsive artworks or video art installations.
Recent awards include the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2019 for her interactive handblown glass light installation for PACC's Atrium in Muirhouse, Edinburgh.
Perth’s art practice is concerned with the vulnerabilities, strengths and vigour of the human condition. A common thread in Perth’s work is a preoccupation with states, spaces and public realm characterised by flux, passage and transfer.
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August 8, 2023
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A Sense of Someplace

Lindsay Perth

I get lost in other people’s bygone adventures and pasts and revive them as impossible places and suspicious times.

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Lindsay Perth

A Sense of Someplace
© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

Each image is made from two found 35mm film slides. I remove the slides from the mounts and trawl my slide collection for two images that reveal new narratives. If a pair have a kind of rhyme to them, I remount them and I project them onto a screen and look at them in detail. When this close inspection would show that there is no ‘story’, I would start again.

‍

© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

I work in this manner until I successfully create a composite which offers a new narrative, one that visually provokes a scene or place that feels familiar and yet is impossible. It can take a long time before I make one that reveals an ‘other’. The two slides – witnesses of their own unique time and place – make a new single image with a tilted nostalgia. You see a photo where time and place feel adrift.

‍

© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

Sometimes these images have an unrealistic beauty of places we can never experience, others have a silent melancholy. And in many, there is a sense of loss and entropy, even an anxiety. Perhaps it’s a distrust of their ambiguous ‘truth’.

‍

© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

The 35mm slides belong to found family archives at car boot sales. Many are given, some I buy online or save from bins. Increasingly find them on my doorstep. I have become known as the ‘Slide Woman’ with people sending me slides from as far as Los Angeles.

‍

© Lindsay Perth | A Sense of Someplace

I get lost in other people’s bygone adventures and pasts and revive them as impossible places and suspicious times.

‍

About
Lindsay Perth, (Edinburgh, U.K.) is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, originally from Canada. She is an artist/designer with a studio practice and works as a socially engaged artist, currently designing wayfinding and outdoor creative experiences for patients at Leverdanle Hospital, Glasgow. Perth's work is both analogue and digital, often reworking existing and found materials or designing and building responsive artworks or video art installations.
Recent awards include the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2019 for her interactive handblown glass light installation for PACC's Atrium in Muirhouse, Edinburgh.
Perth’s art practice is concerned with the vulnerabilities, strengths and vigour of the human condition. A common thread in Perth’s work is a preoccupation with states, spaces and public realm characterised by flux, passage and transfer.
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August 8, 2023
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