Residue

Shot over a single afternoon on the Barbican’s east stairwell, this sequence treats the coat as a second building — its seams answering the board-marked concrete, its hem cutting the light the way a balcony cuts the sky. We kept the shadows uncorrected. In 1983 the cloth was made to resist weather; four decades later it resists the camera, holding its shape long after the figure inside has stepped out of frame.