Slipspace

When trains were first introduced in the 19th century, they had a profound impact on artists. The experience of train travel was not only technologically revolutionary, but also deeply disorienting, exhilarating and poetic. When trains first appeared, their speed was unprecedented. For the first time, people could move faster than a horse or carriage. Artists and writers were struck by this new velocity, and it began reshaping how they thought about time, space and perspective.