Observation #097 - 23:22:07

If they were able to conceive or dream another time, perhaps they would be able to live in it.

––Chris Marker, La Jetée, 1962

Observations of Argleton Lane is a story…or is it a discovery?

Depending on which one of these statements you believe will determine whether you think Jacqui Kenny (The Agoraphobic Traveller) is a post photographer, curator, explorer, story teller, or a conduit to another world, discovered during her escape from anxiety and agoraphobia.

Her initial inkling that she was tuning into somewhere else, rather than just exploring a version of our reality, was during her project @streetview.portraits. As she journeyed through the virtual world of Google Street View, she began to notice time glitches and visual anomalies. On returning to a place she had once visited people would have moved or disappeared, something wasn’t right. This other place, crystallized into the concept of ‘Argleton Lane’. Argleton was a town on Google Maps that suddenly disappeared in May 2010, leaving no trace of its existence.

Observations of Argleton Lane is the third in the Argleton Lane series. It is a collection of mysterious scenes, captured when Jacqui was able to intercept the extensive monitoring of Argleton Lane. To date she has been unable to discern if the “strangeness” is a result of technical anomalies or whether there is something more to it? Is it an indication that those who created and control these worlds have motives that are more nefarious?

As with all Argleton Lane collections, Observations is seeded with imagery discovered during her extensive virtual journeys in Street View, but augmented by her imagination.