In the "Transient System", this body of work explores how the ideas of the modern metropolis and the state of contemporary society has created a phenomenon globally - not just in the U.K. - made up of the isolation and self-absorption created by the state of limbo in which the commuter is submerged during his journeys. The body of work also explores the natural behaviour of what Sigmund Freud described as "schaulust" or "scopophilia" as it is better known. This is the term used to describe one's innate voyeuristic instinct to stare or gaze at other people as one encounters them in everyday life. As Walker Evans once said, in relation to a similar work that he produced -
"Stare. It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare. Pry. Listen. Eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."
-Walker Evans,1960
