Overlaps

"...The ruin is a shadow realm of slowness in which things are revealed at a less frantic pace. Within this relative stillness, bypassed by the urban tumult, the intrusions from the past which penetrate the everyday life of the city are able to make themselves felt more keenly. To explore these overlapping, multiple temporalities...focus upon the ways in which ruins stimulate multiple memories: recollections which flow into each other and diverge, resonate backwards and forwards, splice the personal and the collective. In ruins, the linearity of narrating the past is upstaged by a host of intersecting temporalities which 'collide and merge' in a landscape of juxtaposed 'asynchronous moments', a spatialisation of memory which involves 'crossing, folding and piercing' rather than sequential organisation." From Tim Edensor's book "Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality."