Clare Stent

Clare Stent

Clare Stent traces contour maps of the cities of the world, as if walking them. In this case the city is London. Stent suggests a reality hidden subliminally below the buildings but experienced in ones passage around the city everyday.

They act like remembering a half forgotten landscape, contours known but until seen not realized. They bring this subliminal landscape to the surface.

Stent traces the maps using carbon paper, and in that slow repetitive action familiarizes herself with the geography of the broader city, like walking it, until she knows it 'like the back of her hand'.