"Not a Number."
Description
Not a Number is a code-based moving-image work that examines London’s red phone booths in
their current state - disconnected, neglected, and functioning as surfaces that collect traces of the city. Though no longer used for communication, they remain expressive objects layered with stickers, graffiti, residue, and unintended marks. Using motion detection and colour filtering, the film isolates the booths from their surroundings and reveals them as material presences that continue to register human activity long after their function has disappeared. Through this digital processing, the work reframes the booths as living records of urban behaviour, passage, and decay.
Together, these works examine how the city absorbs objects after their purpose fades, and how photographic documentation can expose these subtle forms of urban afterlife.Try it!
