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A Subterranean Sadness
is one of a series of artworks exploring the manipulation of existing communications systems to deliver public art messages.
The artwork repurposed the programmable VDU monitors in Liverpool Street Station, London UK.
The standard security message is accompanied by an existential 'security message' about the burden of loneliness.
Railway stations are often busy but anonymous places, teeming with people but simultaneously insulating us from one another.
A Subterranean Sadness
speaks to this often shared feeling of dissociation and the deep human desire for connection, not isolation; for warmth, not sadness.
Sharing the fact and experience of loneliness is one way of ameliorating the feeling itself.
There’s a Hint Underneath the Surface, A Kind of Subterranean Sadness about a Whole Day Alone.
Designed for the programmable VDU display system at Liverpool Street Mainline Station, London UK.
