La Ruta: Routine / Route/in / a / Rutina
La Ruta: Routine / Route/in / a / Rutina
La Ruta: Routine / Route/in / a / Rutina
It is 6 am and I’m getting on at the first stop.I move from train car to train car observing the morning light and how it interacts with the space in search of a place from which to observe. The dance between the morning light and vertical lines plays an important role in how I compose, frame, and document each commuter in the space they routinely occupy on their journey from suburb to city, from home to work. I have studied them, and their habits, each morning over the last several months.In documenting the unpredictable frenzy as they run to their seats with coffee, laptop, and attitude in hand, I have discovered something more subtle and different. Entering the same door, rushing to claim the same seat on the same commute day after day, it was not frenzy but monotony and alienation that stood out. Solitary beings positioned not just in public spaces, but spaces that serve as an imagined territory of sorts. Sometimes seen in posture, sometimes in a glare, documenting this space called for a nostalgic tone that suggests a blurring of boundaries, between public and private, work and home, crowds and alienation.
