Projected by Xiangchi Chen
At the metro of Cambronne, the blue light coming from the corner of the wall gives people a bunch of emotions. I chose to shoot the whole metro station separately to emphasise how big it is and how hopeless a person can be because many people will think or mediate when they take transportation. Some of them even choose metro as their suicide place.
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I’m sitting alone on the platform at night, waiting for the last train. The station is completely empty except for me. It is uncomfortably silent; the only sound coming from the harsh artificial blue and white lights that hang around the station. Five minutes until the next train. It feels so far away. I reach into my pocket for my phone to find that it is out of battery. Fuck. Anxiety starts to creep closer. Four minutes. I feel stuck, I hate this. It’s so dark and cold and creepy. I should have just taken an Uber home. Three minutes. How am I literally the only person here? There are millions of people in this city and not one of them happens to also need this train. Wait a minute, what’s that sound? Is that a rat!? That’d better not be a rat. I heard there are twice as many rats as people in Paris. Hold on… Oh thank god another person. Finally. Two minutes. Oh that’s cute she has flowers. I wonder who gave them to her? It’s been hours since any florists were open. I’d bet she was on a date tonight and someone gave them to her. She is coming home alone though so maybe it didn’t go so well… but she did keep the flowers so it couldn’t have been that bad… One minute. She’s reaching into her bag for her phone. I wonder if she’s texting that guy? Wait. I have no idea what the hell I’m talking about. This is just some random woman trying to get home. I think I hear the train. Thank God! That took forever. I need to get the hell out of here. Ok I definitely shouldn’t sit there, that dude looks super drunk. Oh shit he definitely just puked! Jesus could this get any worse.
