Waterloo-City, City-Waterloo: The Waterloo and City Line

Description

In ‘Waterloo-City, City-Waterloo’, Leanne Shapton creates an authorly and artistic response to the Waterloo and City line’s particular length and those who travel on it. She observes the particularities of the line’s rush-hour passengers and imagines a number of their interior monologs, in both verbal and visual detail. The variety of commuters ruminations and obsessions result in a detailed and illustrated breakdown of the line’s distance and time – its brevity, its passage between only two stations, its existence as almost primarily a shuttle for office workers going between their homes and the business district of the city.