Oxford — Whywake Creative

Oxford Circus

I think there is something quite lonely about the most crowded areas of a city. I walk Oxford Circus almost daily to get home, and the chaos does not make me feel less alone - if anything, it throws me into a deeper state of self reflection, as if crawling inside is a defense mechanism against the noise and the crowds.

It was incredibly hard to hear at Oxford - everything was in extremely short bursts, most people were speaking other languages than english, and I was constantly straining. When I sat down to construct this piece from the uninteresting and rather short snippets I had gathered, I was tempted to make my creative response extremely chaotic and messy in nature - but I wanted to reflect more the internal feelings I had and how they paired with the noise around me.

This “excerpt” from a screen play is meant to convey loneliness and homesickness - it honestly took me ages to work it out from the content I had, but I wanted to stick with what I had gotten on that 30 minute walk up and around the Oxford station entrances. I honestly found it rewarding to make something out of what sort of felt like nothing - I included a snippet of some sounds I recorded to pair with the more simplistic design.

WHAT I HEARD