Linda Duffy’s work moves between the general and the specific. It explores the similarities, parallels and repeating patterns of the macro and the micro.

Fragments and objects are collected and examined as evidence of people that have passed through, and activities that have occurred in, places and spaces. They allude to the histories and stories of the place and its people.

Tracings of incidental marks and stains evidence the effects of time on man-made structures. These tracings mimic geographic maps of countries and regions.

Time is considered as a continuum. The succession of people, companies and industries that have inhabited and used spaces over time are explored through the application of mapping processes.

For example, a time-continuum map of 55 Leroy Street, London, SE1 4SN, reveals the process of change that has occurred in the building - this building becomes a case study of the process of change that has occurred in the area immediately surrounding the building, and in the wider world, as we have passed from the industrial to the information age.