Urban Environment Project

Having been given the topic of 'Urban Environment' to work on over the next few weeks, I began by exploring my personal urban surroundings.
   As I am attracted to colour and shape i began looking at various forms of signage throughout the city. This then lead me to thinking about how inhabitants of the urban environment view not only signs but eachother. How do we choose friends? Do people judge others on their appearance or habits?
   I went on to focus on what we use to help others form opinions of us. How one hides using make-up and clothing. How we can lull even ourselves into a false sense of security by buying into trends and fads just because they bombard us in our surrounding environment.
   One way which I hope to focus on getting behind the barriers of urban dwellers is by searching for and recording the various washing lines around the city, especially those in full view of the general public. I intend on researching others who have focused on this topic and document in my project how they went about their discovery.
   I hope to use washing lines as a way of seeing the bare person. How they hang their washing, when they do it, do they follow a certain method? unconsciously, people will be displaying their upbringing for all their urban neighbours, friends and foes alike.