Broadstone Project
The Broadstone Project
The Broadstone Project is a series of photographs, drawings and videos of the abandoned and condemned sheds, beside the Bus Éireann depot, in Broadstone, Dublin 2. It is located beside the route of the new Luas Cross City Green line to Broombridge, the same line which once ran from Broadstone to Liffey Junction. The Broadstone Project explores the history of the location and of the people who worked there.
In 2010, the location had taken on a new life of calm and tranquility after a life of activity, social interaction, conflict and intense production. It was a space invested with traces of the people who once “inhabited” it with their sweat and breath. Merleau-Ponty would call it an “anthropological space” where mind, body and the world cannot be separated. Temporal layering of space, time, colour and technology can lead to a consideration of both the historical past of the location itself and the present moment, that soon passes. The effect should be interrogative, with the viewer reflecting on the elements that interact and co-exist encompassing layers of history, records, skills, knowledge, memories and the passing of time.
A selection of photographs from this project are on permanent display in Kildare Town Library.
Below is a link to view the publication accompanying the project.
