TRAIN JOURNEY | Lucy Jane Purrington

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LUCY PURRINGTON

TRAIN JORUNEY

The daily train journey to work and back.

Experiencing the land through motion.

This image appears to be abstracted from reality with it’s two eery reflections on both outside the train carriage and inside. Peering out, the dark landscape in tones of dark blue hovers, whilst the interior lights construct in bright tones of yellow and orange in the misted windows. A row of white lights run at a diagonal line down the image.

A hazy night time image of a male figure walking into a turquoise blue train station shelter, trying to escape the looming rain and misty weather. A bright white light illuminates the top of the gentleman’s head above him.

A scene looking out at the immediate landscape outside of the train, caught in a blur. Blue and darkened tones highlight the autumn leaves of a small bush to the right side of the image.

A sharp image, plucked from the racing train of the leaves hanging down on a weeping willow. A nearby street light unseen in the image casts an orange glow onto the leaves that gently falls into tens of darkened blue and purple.

This is a blurred image taken at night of a train station sign that reads ‘Treherbert’ The sign and a bare tree behind are lit by the yellow glow of a nearby lamp that is out of shot. A faint reflection of the carriage can be seen in the dark black night in the left hand side of the image.

6. This appears to be like a double exposure where two images are stacked on top of each other to create a surreal distorted reality. However, this effect is created from the reflection in the window of the train carriage. Outside you can see trees in bloom with e faint hint of yellow from a nearby lamp and the roof of a train station in colours of turquoise and dirtied silver. The second image, or reflection is of a figure stood in the carriage with their back facing the camera and the walls of the inside of the carriage.

This is a dark scene of blurred trees, bare of leaves in Winter and an electrical pylon. The image is deprived of colour with only shadows of a dimly lit landscape on display.

Slightly blurred trees attempt to obscure the scene behind of a relic of Wales’ past. A red winding tower stands in the distance, in misty weather; seemingly far away and faded, it is still standing strong and part of the welsh landscape.

A misty daylight scene looking out to the distant and obscured trees. In the foreground, the tops of lamp posts and street lights can be seen, as if part of the natural landscape of trees.

This is a photo shot as the train docks at a station, and so if perfectly in focus and sharp with no blurred movement. The scene is of a small patch of grassy field which extends into a woodland forest of native Welsh trees. Most of them are bare apart from a few small green sproutlings as though it were early Spring. In the middle of this picture of wilderness is a singular metal roadside lamp. It jolts the viewer into thinking that even in picturesque scenes, the footprint of man ins’t too tara way.

This is a photo of the top of the winding machinery used in the coal pits. It is red in colour with large wheels at the top. There are sections of criss-crossed mental framing to support the tall structure. In the foreground are blurred bare trees and behind, a white dull sky.

This is a photograph of a train track line and train station. There are numerous tall lamp posts and signs with information for train drivers. There are two large stop and go train traffic signal posts that dominate the image. To the far left of the picture are four bright lights reflected on the window from the inside of the train carriage.

In the foreground of this image are blurred purple butterfly bushes. Behind is a white two story building in ruins with sections bulldozed down. The building no longer has a roof but many window panes still remain. There is a wonderful blue sky behind. Bricks and mortar lay crumbling around the scene.

This is a photo of the same scene as the previous image of a building being demolished. In this photograph, there is a large mechanical arm of a demolition digger that pierces the sky. Behind is the ruined building with walls smashed to the ground. A row of green butterfly bushes frame the bottom section of the image. And beyond the building a green mountainside can be seen making the building almost feel out of place and imposed amongst nature.

This is a photo in Winter with bare leafless trees scattered around the scene of buildings that fade into mountains and blue sky. In the foreground is a long length of wooden fence, signifying a barrier between the experience of the interior of the outside world which is briefly seen through the windows of the train carriage. A large pale orange NCP car park building stands in the right section of the image. A tall church steeple pierces the space behind and beyond that a brown mount aide with three metal masts can be seen.

This is a photo of an old tall stone building that appears to be run dow with damaged windows. Green ferns, overgrown and ivy covers the one side of the building facing the camera and extends out to all of the bottom section of the image. A blue sky with slight whips of cloud sits behind the building. In the top left side of the image there is the reflected pattern of the train carriage lights which reminds us that the scene before us is a brief moment before the train continues with it’s journey.

This is a photo of a mountain side coloured in tones of brown and red by dead ferns and trees. The thin trunks of silver berates form vertical lines in the image. A blue sky behind contrasts the colours of winter. A white cross made up of painted stones clings to the side of the mountainside in the centre of the image. The rumoured story behind this monument was that two local friends made a pact when they both went to war together that if one should perish, the other would build a cross in the landscape above where they grew up as a tribute to their sacrifice.

This is a photo of a tree in bloom with delicate small pink flowers next to a tall silver beech tree still naked from winter. A gorse bush with it’s brilliant yellow bloom stands on the right side of the image with a red and turquoise railway sign protruding from the other side of the shrubbery. A lamp post and the roof of a house can be distantly seen behind the trees. The blue sky contrasts against the colours of the floral blossoms.

This is a picture of an autumnal scene of a woodland area in tones of browns, reds and yellows with train tracks running parallel to the horizontal line of the image. In the right side of the image is a metal rectangular small box stood amongst decaying red ferns.

This is a scene in limited tones of brown and muted yellows of silver beech trees set against a rocky outcrop. The forest is bathed in golden Winter sunlight and each naked twig is highlighted against the darker background.

This is a photo of the roof of s train station. A pale blue sky presides over the top section of the image above the roof’s edge. The roof is made from black coloured horizontal panels that is adorned with speckles of colourful lichen. beneath that are more horizontal cessions of green painted wood vertical panels of white wood which have pointed edges. A town with various buildings can be seen in the distance with signs to guide passengers from the platform.

This is a photograph that has been taken looking upwards to a tall office building made up from rows of glass windows and brown panels. Above the building is a bright blue cloudless sky. The sunlight is reflecting off the building in the right side of the image. The image has been taken at an angle so that the shape of the offices cut a slight diagonal line into the sky.

This train station scene appears busy from the multi layers buildings, signs, poles and lamp posts but doesn’t feature any people in the shot. There is a green staircase, where it leads is unknown. Secretary CCTV cameras are pointed in every direction and tower above the scene on a tall silver post just off centre to the left side of the image. Clouds are forming in the background behind.

This is a photograph of the top of another train carriage. The carriage is bathed in golden sunlight which highlights the textured dirt and grime that covers the white and turquoise paintwork. In the distance is a dark and steep mountainside. Just off centre, a tall silver pole cuts the image in half.

This is a photograph of an office building made up of rows of rectangular windows and faded blue panels in between. On top of the building’s roof sits a small white wooden hut made of horizontal panels. A red brick wall clings to the left side of the hut. Behind, the top of a leafless tree can be seen in a pale blue hazy sky.

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