Parallel Lines
Faithfull created a new work and presented two existing works concerned with travel and absence:
Parallel Lines confused two simultaneous journeys. Visitors on the Beacon bus looked out onto the Lincolnshire countryside through windows covered with drawings sent from a journey happening on the other side of Europe. Travelling from Berlin to Helsinki and then on to north of Finland (in search of the Northern Lights), Faithfull made one drawing for each of Beacon's days. Using a Palm-Pilot as a crude sketchpad, Faithfull transmitted these drawings back to Lincolnshire where they were transferred onto the outside of the coach's windows (using the standard sign-shop technique of vinyl transfer). As the drawings accumulated they reinforced the state of disorientation and flux that an increasingly mobile world produces.
Orbital no.1
Originally commissioned by Artsway, Orbital no.1 combined three circular journeys around London into a single hypnotic image. Recorded in real time, the journeys around the M25, the North and South Circulars and the Circle Line created a contemporary vision of Dante's concentric circles of heaven or hell. At odds with the countryside outside the windows, the film displayed on the coach's video screens created a map defined by the gravitational pull of the centre, offering a glimpse of the dizzying energy states that define the contemporary city.
The Antarctic Diaries
Using the coach's stereo system The Antarctic Diaries re-lived a journey made from the Falkland Islands to the ice-cliffs of Antarctica. Narrated by the dehumanised, synthetic voice of the Macintosh laptop on which they were written, The Antarctic Diaries tried to describe an increasingly surreal world beyond human habitation.
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