TICKING AWAY THE MOMENTS THAT MAKE UP A DULL DAY

I made Ticking Away the Moments That Make Up a Dull Day while paying attention to the time we spend getting from one place to another. On buses and trains, at stops and in the spaces between journeys, people sit close together while occupied with their own thoughts, phones and destinations. I was drawn to how familiar these scenes are, and how rarely I stopped to look at them.

The photographs find small pauses within the routine of travel: a figure seen through a rain-specked window, someone waiting for a connection, a passenger looking out as the city moves past. I can’t know what anyone in the pictures is thinking. Their gestures and the spaces around them are enough to suggest that even an ordinary journey can feel different to every person making it.

The title comes from Pink Floyd’s reflection on time passing through everyday life. That idea stayed with me as I worked. A commute can feel repetitive, yet no two journeys are quite the same. Light changes, people enter and leave the frame, and a brief moment of stillness appears before it’s gone.

This series is my attempt to notice those moments. It looks at the quiet closeness of sharing public space and the individual lives continuing within it.