The undefined, the past allowing the future to flourish, spaces never being finished. These thoughts in my work run over to this project. How I may reflect them through the drawings of the house I am yet to decide, but one element is that the white paper may be exchanged. The past of the house is so long ago, it is more of a challenge to bring in that universal feel to the work, but then maybe the lives of those even so long ago may not have been so different on a personal level. This will no doubt be brought through the idea of the ‘uncanny’ that Rachael speaks of, an idea that has clear indicators for me. Maybe the house has remained in the half-world, or that it remains within it.
I have developed now a clear indication of the ideas that concern me, the collaboration is allowing me the chance to link directly with the thoughts of another. For Rachael, I wonder where the search is taking her? Is she developing her current ideas, or is the project bringing out some new questions that involve self discovery and the exploration of personal memory, and of how to react anew to place? I look forward to talking through this. The question to us all is one based around what it is we are searching for.
The whole process is about digging into the timeline that moves in continuous flux from past to present and I believe that working in the intimate spaces of lives opens up the real possibility to our own life being revealed, it being a constant process of moving through the ‘not quite familiar somehow’ which is, perhaps, the place where the mysterious can reveal itself in the most intimate and intriging ways.
