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'Urban Shadow Walks' (2006) Taken from the 'Waste Land' project

By Sally Waterman 2006

Dimensions
6 min

SD Digital video projection, dimensions variable, colour, sound (6’

'Unreal City' (l.60, 207)

'A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,

I had not thought death had undone so many' (1.62-63)

‘Waste Land’ is the culmination of a five-year project, which comprises twelve photographic and video installations derived from T. S Eliot’s 1922 poem. By utilising adaptation as autobiography, Waterman emotionally embodies the text, appropriating particular lines, concepts or images from ‘The Waste Land’ into her own fragmented narratives or adopting them as titles for the works themselves.

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'Between Us' (2018) Taken from the 'Twenty' project

'Who is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?' (2009) Taken from the 'Waste Land' project

I Knew Nothing (2006) Taken from the 'Waste Land' project

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