16/6 Dover Friday afternoon – pottered around Dover town, looked at the sea – v. still and calm and the bit where land meets sea – an amazing array of architectural styles can be seen just by looking inland over your shoulder.
Also paid fleeting visit to Connaught Barracks – now abandoned by soldiers – and rather haunting in the soft summer rain. Might come back to take more photos.
"The insertion of objects, texts, images and voices into a context already thick with meaning has produced a complex scene, which invites the viewer to move through the work, drawing out hidden and differing meanings." This quotation from Jane Rendell's book Art and Architecture: A Place Between summarises the core ideas that sit at the centre of my practise. I use a range of media to create installations that express or imply something in the gap between the function of the space and the work created for it, a kind of unraveling of ambiguous structures and narratives.
