Wayside Shrine What is life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
additional images - coming soon	video footage
Wayside Shrine consists of three stages. In the first instance, a tourist brochure will be distributed to all major Leeds city centre venues advertising virtual wayside shrines along the M62; placed by Audiences Yorkshire at all their tourist stands. This stage is complete; the brochures are printed and awaiting distribution as part of the Situation Leeds Art in the Public Realm Festival in May 2005. The second stage of the project will involve a show of actual shrines, one at each of the service stations along the M62 in August 2005. They will be placed in the grounds of each service station and will be based on drawings of the motorway. The shrines will be constructed using traditional methods (wood framing and metal casting) and have been made in collaboration with Leeds College of Art and Design as part of the national AA2A (Artists’ Access to Art College) project. For the final stage, a video will be made showing a car journey from Hull to Liverpool, and vice versa, from the passenger’s point of view; stopping at each service station to view the shrines. The video will then be speeded up for the travelling footage and slowed down for the period of viewing each shrine, with the final video being displayed in a gallery environment. The final video showing is envisaged as a split screen presentation, showing the journey East to West on one side and West to East on the other side of the screen. The intention is for this stage of the project to be a gallery piece. This project is sponsored by the Arts Council and Christian Arts Trust and supported by Moto.