The cyanotype I had created was a visual representation of a physical structure in east Bristol. It represented the Roundabout, underpasses and the graffiti and found objects I had been documenting for 18 months. The cyanotype was an embodiment of a living, dynamic structure.
Symbolism plays an important role in every day life, in our appreciation of art and literature, in the way that we worship and in the way we analyse ourselves, including personalities, mythologies, needs and dreams. Symbolism even became an art movement in itself.
My Cyanotype became a symbol for Lawrence Hill Roundabout.
In order to personalise the cyanotype, to increase the potency of its symbolism and to imbue it with parts of my life and interest in photography I took it to west Penwith in Cornwall, a region where I have been making photographs for many years. Here a Bristol linguistic landscape met with a Cornish landscape rich in history and symbolism also and i strengthened its associations.
Finally it felt ready to be taken to Bristol. The following images follow the trail from Taunton to Lawrence Hill Roundabout, leaving Taunton railway station Templemeads station crossing the river Avon and then to the Roundabout.
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