Pavement Meditations is a project rooted in walking, daydreaming, drifting, street haunting and psychogeography. My daily life and schedule requires travelling between work and my studio. Most of this is done by walking and during these journeys I  began to notice discarded, torn, flattened, ephemeral and crushed pieces of rubbish scattered on my walks. These abstract forms of rubbish on the pavement fascinated me so I began to obsessively document them photographically. Each piece seemed to tell a story, or at least an imagined one, always with a trace of human life and behaviour attached. They were modern day artefacts of peoples lives. The coffee cup lid discarded by the commuter rushing off to catch the train and then trodden on by hundreds of other travellers. The sandwich packet remains of someones lunch. These pieces of rubbish seemed to have a lifespan much like humans, plants and animals and the speed and length of that lifespan was determined by their materiality, chance and circumstances. A plastic wrapper tossed in the wind for days, weeks and months could travel great physical distances. A  newspaper was repeatedly trodden on and turned into a paper pulp by rain showers then dried out again in the sun to take on a new solidified form where the words were no longer legible. A wet tissue could curl and dry into a form that resembled a cloud and a piece of knotted plastic could resemble a dancing figure. A whole universe/cosmos existedcosmos beneath my feet.