ABSTRACT

The lines from T. S. Eliot resonate with an idea that a place in time is never completely set, that there are multiplicities and layers of meaning that play out in a non-linear transformation of spaces in time. The development narrative only scratches the surface of this within its advertising hyperbole yet the true nature of such rapid conversion of place is complex, appealing to the critical and explorative practice of art. Living in, walking through, and documenting this space has been woven into practice, using art as a tool for traversing and emphasising the multiplicities and veils that contest the reductive line of civil prosperity through private regeneration.