Glimpses Per Second

Future Trans-Continental Transit Station

Woodbury University | Studio 5A | Instructor: Paulette Singly | Intersection of I-5 & 110 Freeway, Los Angeles | Fall 2022

Glimpses Per Second - A project that revolves around a subluminal momentary human experience people encounter almost everyday.

As people constantly travel and take public transit, their paths intersect with the paths of many other human beings on their own path through their lives. In some cases, these intersections of life may be significant, but more often are just momentary glances that we exchange with another person and never see them again. People may not think about the overall significance of all the events and happenings that led to this moment, which was only possible by being at the right place at the right time.

This project aims to highlight the subliminal momentary connections we may experience with another stranger: a quick visual connection, a fleeting glance of the face of another human being on their own path in life, and then never seeing them again. This subliminal experience is magnified with this transit center, through the inspiration of early animation tools as a fenestration strategy.

A zoetrope uses the motion of a wheel with slightly different frames to produce the illusion of a moving image therefor, creating partitions with similar apertures is used within the station to create the same effect. But rather seeing a continuous image, the individual would experience seeing different faces of other individuals on the opposite side, creating a subliminal experience of short glimpses and highlighting these swift momentary connections with hundreds of strangers as an individual makes their way to their destination.