A busy high street. People passing one another without noticing. Too busy with their own little worlds to notice others around them. Cars rushing to different places. Busy. Busy. Busy. Everyone is so busy.

We thought as a response to everyone being so busy, we would video them at peak times in the day. The six different places that we chose to video, were places that we felt that people seem to be most oblivious of the happenings around them. Places that even we ourselves, would blend into our surroundings. Filming in Time Lapse allowed us to speed these busy places up and show just how many people walk/drive through these places in a short time. Even looking back at the video now, it allows us to imagine the Lincoln high street fifty or sixty years ago. It allows us to see the ghosts (not literal ones) of how many people have walked those streets in the past years. Pearson states in his book “I evoke this place fifty years ago: performance as a lens or filter, residing exactly over the current everyday.” (Pearson) I like the idea of performing something like the Village piece that Mike Pearson.

Pearson, Mike. Site-Specific Performance. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Print.