Artist Shubha Taparia's Eureka moment came a few years ago when, in central London, she looked at the scaffolding surrounding a construction site, only to see the see the gubbins behind it highlighted in silhouette against its protective geotextile membrane. 'Construction sites aren't usually associated with calm but in the evening sunlight the building site took on a mantle of beauty all its own,' she tells me. It led her to become fascinated with the nature of the city's constantly changing urban landscape, with 'what is discarded and what remains'.
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