Jane Arden Project
Newport Transporter Bridge No. 1 / Far shore and Newport Transporter Bridge No. 2 / Near shore, 2010
Images from the forthcoming Jane Arden Project. In Arden’s ‘The Other Side of the Underneath’ the lead character crosses the river on the Newport Transporter Bridge to be taken for psychiatric treatment. Within the film landscape is often used to represent one woman’s descent into, or her being within, madness, with the crossing of the river signaling journey from the exterior experience of pyschic life into the accepted and institution bound experience of madness.