Paper short abstract:

Through the lens of mobile SMART phones and time-based thermal imaging technology, the creative project, ‘Other Lines’, considers how to visualise air pollutants, hidden climate patterns and unstable atmospheres emitted by industrial plants and fuel production installations 
in the United Kingdom.

Paper long abstract:

In the twenty-first century, air pollution is an expanding visual and technological phenomenon that undoubtedly affects how we invariably see and perceive ‘climate change’ in urban and rural landscapes. The creative project, ‘Other Lines’, considers how to visualise air pollutants and particulates generated from industrial sites at ground level within the Earth’s atmospheric boundary layer. Technological developments in digital image-making and the circulation of images in virtual and terrestrial environments open up alternative opportunities to communicate and see beyond demarcated thresholds between these settings. Consequently, how I engage creatively with virtual and physical landscapes is embodied in this specific project. Through the lens of mobile SMART phones and thermal imaging technology, the digital artworks in this project attentively examine Henri Lefebvre’s philosophical concepts of ‘differentiated time.’ My experimental approaches to visualising environmental conditions in selected industrial sites in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, United Kingdom, offer site-responsive opportunities to instantly produce photographic and time-based visual interpretations of hidden or inconspicuous renderings of climate patterns and unstable atmospheres. Exploratory sites of poor air quality typically include roads, local waterways, established factories, industrial plants and fuel production installations. Furthermore, spatial engagement and active movement along the Wirral Peninsula informed by lived experiences, perceptual imaginations and phenomenological discourse is integral to this productive process. As a published result, my time-based visual research experiments contemplate how thermal imaging reveals the unseen and the seen industrial air emissions at Stanlow, Cheshire, United Kingdom.