random thoughts

The two things that I’m interested in are stairs and wire fences. The rusty and shabby outdoor stairs are attractive structures for me to install something. I walked up the stair right next to the abandoned building, which gave me a fresh view of the area. The transition of view and emotion was quite interesting.

I walked around the area alone for the first time last week, and I got to know that it’s really uncomfortable to cross the platform, which I didn’t realize when I just walk behind the others. It was quite hard to find the entrance of the only bridge and to go to the opposite side. When I got there, it felt like I’m in a totally different town. The dark and old buildings in alleys, teens sitting in the middle of the street and a man drinking on the street... were threatening enough to an Asian girl. Anyway I had to go back to the other side soon, and as I walk into the train station, I started to feel stable. I don’t think this is only a matter of familiarity. While I cross the bridge(the station) which connects two separate areas, I experienced big emotional and environmental change. I don’t know exactly how the residents of each area feel, but I think there must be some kind of psychological differences. In that sense, the bridge has a very important role not only physically but also semantically.Therefore the bridge could be a good metaphor as the connection.

I don’t know how to explain the reason of stiffen feelings from the buildings of the area. I can’t blame the buildings for being rectangular, can I? Though, one interesting point for me is that there are strangely many grid fences and wire meshes. I can find the structures so easily without any effort, so I’m thinking about a piece that can be hung on the mesh and can be moved around the Espoon keskus area by the hands of residents.