a wander at the edges of the unicorn hunt

Recently, I have been encountering a growing sense of entropy as I've traveled around many of Scotland's small towns and coastal areas. Places that no longer even remotely resemble their halcyon days - which are now either occupying or about to enter a slow and steady decline toward dereliction. My desire therefore is to embark on a journey to create a collection of photographic series, representative of this current state of affairs. My intentions are to seek out the surreal and offbeat elements to be found lingering and scattered around these neglected areas - including abandoned inner cities... the kind of places where exposed buildings, run down shop fronts and alleyways can be inhabited by bizarre objects or an assortment of peculiar and disorientating interiors or unfamiliar situations that could require the 'observer' to demystify or reconsider their expectations. I have been closely and carefully exploring what lies within the deeper textures of these environments. I am interested in creating a visual representation of this subject matter, outwith the established course of the photographic image as a form of documentation - usually in combination with some descriptive or historical texts. I have a strong impulse to record these impending 'disintegrations' in a more creative, abstract and poetic way. Perhaps, through the scrutiny of patina on found objects, or the study of fragments from faded posters, by attempts to decipher myriad graffiti - that scribes, splatters and clings to dirty brickwork and grimy windows or by scanning the eroded surface of pockmarked walls for ghostly traces of times past, which endure and haunt weather-beaten facades Such detailed observations might give insights into generations past and glimpses into our recent history too. Ultimately, I intend to document such unique conditions, unusual situations and forgotten places - before they drift beyond our perception altogether into some irreversible state - where any actual meanings, that until recently, may have been clearly discernible, are destined to gradually fade away into nothingness - into the void?