The dead rising - at the heart of a city with the ghosts of Central Station
Only feet deep but worlds apart, infrastructure has often flirted with the dead in its quest to support a growing city - from colonial Sydney’s railway extension, to modern day London Euston’s HS2. Transport planning in turn, has the capacity to reveal a metabolic mapping of our cities supporting life - both the physical narrative of how cities grow, and an intimate biographical portrait of the lives and plights of those that inhabit it across time. The current exhibition Dead Central currently on show at the State Library of New South Wales, explores the soil beneath our feet, arguably entwining our everyday lives with the dreams and dreads of those past. With the city's ghosts. Central Station commuters. Image Author's own. Where 30,000 bodies once lay, train and commuters now glide through - weaving their everyday commutes and routines. On their iPhones, instagram-ing, starring blankly out of windows, mulling over a passing thought or what’s for dinner. The
