Safety Structures of St Petersburg is a typology of rough stands and markers designed to prevent pedestrians from being killed by icicles melting and falling from the tall roofs above. These haphazard health & safety items were all different. Each one taking on sculptural qualities when covered in various paint patterns and layers of frozen icicles.

I created this typology as I wandered around St Petersburg over the course of February and March as snow melted and refroze constantly creating black ice and dangerous, slippery, conditions.

The book is held together with the same red and white barrier tape as used on the wooden structures themselves. The title text in English is reprinted in Russian and presented upside down. If the viewers gets to the end of the first side then flips the book over top-wise, the other side of the images are viewable right side up. This accordion book is designed so that the viewer can read each page like a normal book taking in each image individually or the entire book can be unfolded and viewed all at once like a true typology.

Archival inkjet print on paper, cardboard, book cloth, PVA, plastic barrier tape. Hand made covers, hand folded pages. 2019 – 2021

EDITION OF 7, SIGNED AND NUMBERED.