Failures of Presence by Michael C Coldwell

The Voids at Crossly Ln, Huddersfield by Michael C Coldwell, 2017

Failures of Presence

by Michael C Coldwell

a new photo book is in preparation

The eerie can be characterised as a "failure of absence or by a failure of presence" 

Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, 2016.  

Failures of Landscape

Failures of Context

Failures of Narrative

Failures of Representation

Failures of Humanity

Failures of Presence

"Through the uncanny, presence is stripped of its reassuring content and "things" are reduced to their shadows" Dylan Trigg, The Memory of Place

This is a book of such shadows.

Coming soon...

The Spectres of Modernism

High Rise, 2016, Michael C Coldwell

From the series

Spectres of Modernism 

In memory of the late great Mark Fisher

Here lie the artefacts of progress. As Derrida put it, "the time is out of joint."

That so-called Modernism should now reside so far behind us feels uncanny, a temporal disjunction if not a contradiction in terms. Brutalist buildings, these great concrete totems from that utopian future which failed to materialise, are now being destroyed and transformed on a mass scale - they are effaced and mourned, and also increasingly lionised. Park Hill flats are now protected. Some of this vast site is being renovated, but huge tracks are likely to remain abandoned - a meta-anachronism, a distant past future, forever in the present.