More sketch book thoughts on The Line

I was thinking about the change in feeling from Primrose Hill to The West End. Specifically thinking about PH as a slow, analogue vista and the WE being this multi-sensory digital experience...

Inspired by the old skool TV test card - describing the horizontal, analogue feeling at PH (top left), through to the 'digital peak in the West End (top right) and ultimately returning the calmer, analogue feeling at Horse Guards (bottom right).

At Portland Place (above), the build environment changes out perception of the space, we are aware of the vertical interventions.  In the West End, the feeling is digital, 'pixelated', intense (4D) and harder to process.

The West End is fragmented, like white noise... the two illustrations on the bottom of the page aim to illustrate how the skyline diminishes when walking The Line and the landscape become less ordered, more chaotic. 

I saw this piece by Howard Hodgkin in the Portrait Gallery when we walked The Line in reverse - like the layering, quality of line and dry application of paint - think this patchwork effect entered my subconscious a little...