Reconstructing

As if from Memories

In this project I am exploring different fragments of buildings, structures and landscapes by deconstructing them in an almost physical sense through photography. By revealing their familiar and unfamiliar places from a variety of perspectives, angles and ideas I am inquiring into what these places say to me and how they evoke a myriad of responses and memories as I explore them. In reconstructing them not through a single image but through a series of interconnected perspectives that go beyond the record, illustration or picture I am delving, as if from memory, their multi-facetted characters, the interaction of place and space with the human psyche, and our emotional response to the built and natural environment and how it shapes and defines us.

In the memories I have of it, shaped as they were by a child’s understanding,  it is not a building; to my mind, it consists of discreet parts; here a room, there a room, and here a stretch of passageway that does not connect these two rooms but is preserved in isolation, as a fragment. In this way, it is all dispersed within me; the rooms, the staircases that descend with such elaborate ceremony, and other tight spiral stairs where one passed through as dark as the blood passes through the veins; the rooms in the towers, the balconies hung on high, the unexpected galleries on to which one was thrust by a little door – all of these things are still with me, and will never leave me. (Rainer Maria Rilke – Notebooks of Malte Laurids).