When Someone Beats You To It

Back in June I walked in on David Rokeby's exhibition at fact. I saw the screens showing a city square, with people leaving trails, and felt at once amazed and gutted. This thing I was imagining in my head was infront of me. Someone else did it first. At least in look. I put it out of my mind until now and decided to re-investigate Rokeby's videos. In many ways they deal in similar areas - people's movement through space and time in an urban environment. It suggests ideas of energy, and certainly looked like how i thought the Huge Entity would look - a surreal colourful quality. But I encountered Rokeby's work in an exhibition space, and not in the public space that his work represents.

Early Sketches pt 1

I went back through some old sketchbooks to find the origins of this idea. I found traces of it everywhere.