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Thursday, 11 June 2026

Anarchive Workings~Layered Making/Indexical Relationscapes : Interventions into models/stratifications of research

Interior Design MA~Anarchive

An anarchive is a creative process and philosophy that resists traditional, static archiving. Instead of just storing past traces, it acts as a "feed-forward mechanism" that uses archival material to continuously spark new art, sensations, and becoming.

Spatial Apparatuses, Building/Social Devices and Agendas/Rooms

Indexical Relationscapes.

Events as Interventions producing Intraventions from Sociology, Architecture and the Humanities/Contemporary Arts.

Relationscapes

Erin Manning
Movement/Art/Philosophy

 
For Brian.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.












Waverley Project : Areas of Project Research. 


The Reading Room (a library of subjective taxonomies on the alchemy of building)


The Listening Room (a soundscape interior in time with its environment)


The Sheltering Corridor (a modernist Stoa as a place for encounters/dialogues)


The Pot Room (a installation of thrown objects creating the interior partitions)



The Empty Studio (a adaptation of architecture through the ritual of creativity)



The Perception of The Environment, Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill
Tim Ingold.
Archaeology, Anthropology, Art and Architecture.


Anti-Object.
A building intervenes between subject and space.’ Kengo Kuma

Caruso St John : The Phenomenology of Construction  


Things.
As found is a small affair, it is about being careful, the as found (is) where the art is in the picking up, turning over and putting with. Things need to be ordinary and heroic at the same time.’ Alison and Peter Smithson



Public Intimacy in Social Spaces.

Architecture and The Contemporary Arts.

Learning through Making, (The Parallel of Life and Art) Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture.



Visitor’s Centre, with interpretive exhibition (Stonehenge/Denton Corker Marshall) or an immersive intervention (Winchester Cathedral,Anima-Animus/Elferova and Wilson).


A place where the interior space evokes a sense of place/a becoming (Existential, Historical, Social, Cultural) see ‘The Physical Self’ exhibition curated by Peter Greenaway. The Fate of Place/Human Sociology.











A contemplative space or spiritual/secular retreat featuring a series of interventions (Follies/Pavilions/Huts/Heidegger/Tschumi) that focuses the gaze on a particular view or detail, framing a distant reference (landmark or natural phenomenon, research into Lutyen’s ‘Thunder House’ for Gertrude Jekyll).



Museum of Wisdom. Kengo Kuma.

Noh Stage In The Forest. Kengo Kuma.

Hortus Conclusus. Peter Zumthor.

The Solar Pavilion. Alison and Peter Smithson.

The Secular Retreat, Living Architecture. Peter Zumthor.

Heidegger/Hut,
Bachelard/Poetics,
Ingold/Making.

Construct (Definition) DSC_0029
Ann Cline
A Hut of One's Own
Life Outside The Circle of Architecture.

Herzog  and De Meuron
NATURAL HISTORY

Walking and Mapping
Speculative Environments/Ecolects

Spatial Collage/Assemblage : Yellow/Lead/Photography
Fragments and layers from, Winchester Cathedral, Tidbury Ring Geodesic Dome, Star Atlas.  

Brian Clarke. Beauties (from the two Cultures) 1981.
Brian Clarke. The Office of The Dead 2008. 

It was the region, not the nation, which was the motor force of human development; the almost sensual reciprocity between men and women and their surroundings, was the seat of comprehensible liberty and the mainspring of cultural evolution.
Cities of Tomorrow, Peter Hall.1988
Anarchism, A very short introduction, Colin Ward.2004

Foucault, Sexuality and the 'Confessing Animal' 


My photographs are part of my way of thinking about and imagining spaces and light, of pondering and approaching an idea. In this case, the photographs generate a way of looking at a structure that exists only in order to provoke a sensorial and intellectual experience.
Cristina Iglesias : METONYMY 2013

https://literarydevices.net/metonymy/

https://www.simplypsychology.org/Zone-of-Proximal-Development.html

fig496 Proximity
10 Days at The Laundry : Winchester UK

Architectural Transposition : Anti-Object
Kengo Kuma's, Transparent and temporary shelter at Waverley Abbey

Possible Worlds
The Sensual Reciprocity of This Enchanted Isle













UCA MA Interior Design 2015

Friday, 23 May 2025

Drawing on Life : Bento's Sketchbook/A Hut of One's Own : John Berger/Ann Cline/Bento de Spinoza

In the backyard of where she was living, Cline once decided to build a hut inspired by Kakuzo Okakura's The Book of Tea.

As my dwelling took shape, it began to shape my life as well. And when I sat inside reading the recluse poets, the terse simplicity of their record framed my own perception, one I likened to a camera recording a world of pure experience.





The hut has a sense of immediacy that no room-filled house can achieve. The hut focuses its dweller on immediacy and meaning fulness. "I had found the commodity of my dwelling through the poetry of its use," Cline concludes.

The hut addresses the core of ritual as a part of nature versus the supposed freedom of modernist thought and the architectural contrivances it pursues. The hut represents the convergence of ritual and naturalness, at the same time addressing cultural issues and practices.

With an agility larger structures can never match, huts bring together the physical environment with such disparate aspects of culture as necessity, fantasy, faith, and "life-style." The hut, then, may be humankind's supreme experiment.

This may seem a bold conclusion given the modesty of the hut throughout history, and the modest ambitions of its makers, but this is Cline's point, that the experiment in solitude and simplicity is bolder than any social or culturally-sanctioned experiments or projects, simply because the latter are contrived and unnatural, even anti­ natural.

https://www.hermitary.com/bookreviews/cline.html


Then the days of working at home on it. The image in my head was often clearer than the one on the paper. I redrew and redrew. The paper became grey  with  alterations and  cancelations.  The drawing didn’t get better, but gradually she, about to stand up, was more insistently there.

The effort of my  corrections and  the endurance of the paper have begun  to resemble the resilience of Maria’s own body. The surface of the drawing - its skin, not its image — make me think of how there are moments when a dancer can make your hairs stand on end.

We who  draw do  so  not only  to  make something  observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.






The bodies of dancers with their kind of devotion are dual. And this is visible whatever they are doing. A kind of Uncertainty Principle determines them; instead of being alternately particle and wave, their bodies are alternately giver and gift.

They know their own bodies in such a penetrating way that they can be within them, or before them and beyond them. And this alternates,  sometimes changing  every  few seconds,  some­ times every few minutes.

The duality  of each  body  is what allows them,  when  they perform,  to  merge into  a single entity.  They  lean  against,  lift, carry, roll over, separate from, co-join, buttress each other so that two or three bodies become a single dwelling, like a living cell is a dwelling for its molecules and messengers, or a forest for its animals.

The same duality  explains why  they  are as much  intrigued by falling as by leaping, and why the ground challenges them as much as the air.


Saturday, 22 February 2025

Rendering Visible : Heuristic Mappings/Assemblages and the Production of Open Subjectivities

Visual material must capture non visible forces. Render visible, not render of reproduce the visible
Deleuze and Guattari

Interior : Gridshell

A Hut of One's Own, Ann Cline

For Irigaray, wonder corresponds to time, to space-time before and after that which can delimit. 
Wonder constitutes an opening prior to and following that which surrounds/enlaces.

The Intuition of The Infine

The intuition of a subject that at each point in the present remains unfinished and open to a becoming of the other that is neither simply passive nor simply active.

The Poetics of Space : The house, from cellar to garret. The significance of the hut.

"He will revive the primitivity and the specificity of the fears. In our civilization, which has the same light everywhere, and puts electricity in its cellars, we no longer go to  the cellar carrying a candle. But the unconscious cannot be civilized. It takes a candle when it goes to the cellar."

Gaston Bachelard.

Texts,Annotations, Foundations, Pathways, Corridors, Bookmarks, Walking, Thinking, Ramble, Cross Country, Disciplines,

Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach
The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane
“ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:
 Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”


“To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”

DSC_0205 Archipelagic

Research Collage, Waverley Project/Reading Rooms

Blueprints : Anthropological Forms
Botanical traces with leper graves

Walberswick : DSC_0181a/Digital Pinhole. 2016

Being/Becoming : Aesthetics and Subjectivity
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie.
Nick Cave, The Lyre of Orpheus.
Hildur Gudnadottir, Saman.

Prints From Secrets and Ambiguity
Is there still an aesthetic illusion? And if not, a path to an “aesthetic” illusion, the radical illusion of secret, seduction and magic? Is there still, on the edges of hypervisibility, of virtuality, room for an image?
— Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art, 2005

Jana Sterbak
Remote Control 1989

A heuristic technique (/hjᵿˈrɪstᵻk/; Ancient Greek: εὑρίσκω, "find" or "discover"), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals.



Sensate
Non Spaces : Fire escape Winchester School of Art























Friday, 12 May 2023

New Ceramics/Drawings/Constructions/Apparatuses/Daylight

Ceramic Forms/Inscriptions/Lines of Knowing.

Wayfaring, walking/sensing between things. 

As wayfarers we experience what Robin Jarvis has called a progressional ordering of reality, or the integration of knowledge along a path of travel.

Up. Across and Along, Tim Ingold.


Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Spatial Forms to gather/interact with discursive research

Sensing Spaces : Through displacements and hidden volumes.


The Hut is a vessel in the making for reflective dwelling.

The Pot with its interior underpins its fidelity, its completeness.

Some pots are tuned and balanced for their “innerness”; others promote their surfaces (noise) at the expense of their interior integrity (quietness)


Vessels of Defined Spaces : Creatures of Light and Dark

In sensing a pots interior from its surface, we are as it were in some intimate tacit correspondence with its spatial sensing centre. We become known to it through its maker’s creative gesture of innemess. This anthropological inner space linking us to the potter is both sensual and distant; its vacancy allows us dwell in the maker’s absence.












To build, dwell and explore the space of drawing through intuitive and abstract making.

Drawings/Constructions/Apparatuses.

There is no stage at which humankind does not demarcate, beacon or sign their space, leaving traces that are both symbolic and practical.

The Production of Space.

Lefebrve.



Like drawings, assemblages drawn and made showing the paths taken.

Landing Sites/Holding Places.

Between The Body/Sensing Spaces/Voids.

Perceptions, body, organism, environment,

Mezzanines, lofts, basements, balconies, walkways, scaffolds, access platforms.


Living Architectures/Narratives/Dwelling within the Ruinous. 

Tarkovsky.

Bachelard.

Making Gestures and Connections in Space. 
The Memory of Objects.

The Provocative Combination of Densities.

Inner Architectures/Clay/Sensorial/Conceptual/Places



I placed a jar in Tennessee, 

And round it was, upon a hill. 

It made the slovenly wilderness 

Surround that hill.



The wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild. 

The jar was round upon the ground 

And tall and of a port in air.



It took dominion everywhere. 

The jar was gray and bare. 

It did not give of bird or bush, 

Like nothing else in Tennessee.



Wallace Stevens, ‘Anecdote of the Jar’ (1919)



Innerness for the potter is always at the heart of the practice, as manifested through the opening up of the thrown vessel.

Inner spaces of defined interiors forming vessels that are intrinsically cyclical through light and dark by way of their surfaces and volumes.


Like the cellar, the pots interior and its containment of light and shadow becomes a dwelling space for a submerged primordial memory. (Bachelard/Trigg)



The clay links the vessel to both locality and our geocentric position.


‘Pleasure is moving from darkness to light and vice-versa.’ 
Grafton Architects. Sensing Spaces: 2014


The pot promotes an architecture of the soul, of an intimate yet social interior illuminated through the imagination.

In The Making : Hollowing out Space through Innerness and Difference. 
Quietus : Interiors of Silence and Space.

Innerness : A (sensorial) space or even a place interior to its environment 



Splitting.
Spatial representations/cuttings into the urban/social fabric of architectural redundancy.

Gordon Matta-Clark.


The co-existence of overlaying fragments of construction, by selective excavation and creative demolition.

Castelvecchio an attitude to history. Carlo Scarpa.



Site is the un-doing of place.

Generative and provisional, site-specific investigations for sensing place.  


Hand Built, Slab Ceramics.

Oxide washes, incised lines and piercings undertaken to the raw clay forms.

Architectural Facades/Camera Obscura. 



Dark Room.
Garry Fabian Miller.

The internal mechanisms with which we see and experience visual and physical phenomena depend on a bottom-up approach. Building up from elements of abstraction, the opposite top-down approach of given figuration stifles necessary imagination.



Curiosity, imagination and enthusiasm all hold a power in the mind to ignite the creative act.

The Lake of The Mind.

Steven Holl.


Stochastic thinking suggests an interconnected ecosystem of architecture together with all of the arts to achieve new levels of correlation.lay



Monday, 28 March 2022

Working Notes : Sensing Space a camp within a creative landscape





WORKING NOTES
IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES
MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE


The House-sheds : Camping

There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through.

Roger Deakin
WILDWOOD
A Journey Through Trees


Russell Moreton, Speculative Spatial Practices

A reflective building is an echo not a statement.
Haptic devices/seating/dwelling in the landscapes of the mind.
Landscape assemblages and the significance of solitude.
The immensity/intimacy and its immediacy to the imagination.
Immensity is within ourselves  Bachelard 

The site a Raveningham offers the spatial practice of a social event and the opportunity to playfully engage with architectural forms, fine art surfaces and textures.

The sensing space, a sculptural assemblage created at Raveningham is an inquiry into 'making' and 'reflexivity' amongst a social landscape.


Supportive Material/Texts/Cyanotype Drawings from found objects

AFFECT
SENSATION / CAUSALITY
LIVING
THINKING
LOOKING

DRAWING and THE LAW OF STRATIFICATION, the inevitable results of the working of GRAVITY
STRATIFICATION OF RECOLLECTION / MEMORY OF THE WORLD. (A Land, J Hawkes )

FACTORING THE TACTILE CONDITIONS OF THE REAL WORLD into perceptual awareness

PERCEPTUAL psychologist, J.J. Gibson departs from 'the classical approach to depth or space' in favour of an ECOLOGICAL approach to VISUAL SPACE PERCEPTION, which take SURFACES and TEXTURE as its starting point.

Mediating the experience of LANDSCAPE
SITE / COLLAGE / COMPONENTS working/walking, developing a creative spatial syntax
COLOUR AS CONDUIT / PERCEPTUAL ENVIRONS / CRAFT MEDIA / IMPROVISATION
PIERCED / DAPPLED NATURAL LIGHT
DIFFERENTIATED SHADOW / SURFACE
EXTRAORDINARY MATERIALS / TECTONICS AND TEXTILES

INDEXICAL / GESTALT / VISUAL PERCEPTION
NETWORKS / RESOURCES / AGENCY for the potential of BUILDING
SCAFFOLDS / GAUZE / POCHE solids of a building/architectural plan
ABSENCES / INTERSECTIONS / GRIDS / MESHES / SPRAYS / MOTIFS
ACTUALITY
IMMATERIAL / REPETITION / SINGULARITY
ENCLOSURES / ITERATIONS / THINKING FORMS
MINIMALIST SPACES / INTERVALS, tuning objects to construct environments

A child 'concretizes' its existential space.
Dwelling, Reverberations, Epiphanic Instant, Gaston Bachelard.

Tidbury Ring, field drawings with cyanotype liquid on paper.
A Hut of Ones Own.
Heidegger for Architects.
Immaterial Architectures.

SENSING AND SPATIAL PRACTICE
EXPLORING THE LANDSCAPE, through the CORPOREAL EXPERIENCE of OTHERS
A STRUCTURE INTERPOSED between the sunlight and the interior space it encloses.
Poetic abstractions/Physical experience
Soft/Blurring boundaries between art and the everyday making/becoming
REFLEXIVITY / TRANSLUCENCY surfaces into an architectural presence
TEXTURES / LIMINALITY on the absence of material
STATIC ENVIRON / ANIMATED THROUGH THE BODY
THE ARCHITECTURAL SKIN / SURFACE, Blurring, revealing, masking, filtering,
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE / WALL / ARCH / PASSAGE /


VISUAL TOOL / POCHOIR, hand coloured through stencils
SCULPTURAL ASSEMBLAGES, towards Speculative Forms/Expression
TECTONICS IN MAKING, and the tectonics of immateriality/traces hidden by building.
Concerned with bringing the material from its physical form into the meta-physical world.

PAVILION
FUSELAGE

THE CAMP/HUT
represents the true reality of things, Deakin.
The building as nothing more than an exposition of itself.
A subjective hypothesis, a drawing developed into an objectivity for experience/learning.

SITE, the undoing of PLACE

BRICOLAGE / HEURISTIC PRACTICE, Using things at hand, temporal, self constructions, becomings, mind forming explorations.
MOBILITY
MOVEMENT
TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTED SPACE
A building component, scaffold, joists and fixings, a surface of absences and the movement of others come together.

MAKING, from form to programme.
ABSURDITY
POLEMIC POETRY
CONFLICTING
DYSFUNCTIONAL
TETHERED FOLLY against a fabric of time.



ART AS INDETERMINATE, able to arrest perceptions into different states (becomings)

Stone Worlds
Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology

Architecture and Ritual, how buildings shape society.

Bought to Light
Photography and The Invisible 1840-1900

CURATORIAL / DEVICE / BENCH / INTERLOCATOR
Jannis Kounellis, Theatre, stage crew shifting actors during a performance.
Interconnected, between contexts, opening places between the social fabric.
Making spaces, expanding vision to create spaces 'between' in which to write ourselves.

CONTEXT AND CONSIDERATIONS / MAKING, EXHIBIT, VIEW

ART MUSEUM CULTURE
THE CONTEXT FOR CONTEMPORARY ART IS THAT WE MAKE, EXHIBIT AND VIEW

MUSEUM DIRECTOR, CURATOR, COLLECTOR, ARTIST
None of that means anything anymore. Artists are now more DIVIDUALISTIC. They discover themselves not by securing a role within the historic narrative of a chosen medium. But by INTERGRATING into a more DIFFUSE ECOLOGY that involves not only making art, but also putting on shows, publishing, organizing events, teaching, networking.

THE STUDIO is no longer a retreat, but it now INTEGRATES, IT IS ALL EXTERIOR.

THE NETWORK places the artist as a 'like' ITEM within an INTEGRATIVE INVENTORY or 
DATABASE.


















Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape


The 'exigencies' of the situation at hand.
Tim Ingold, MAKING.
 
Spatial Intelligence
New Futures for Architecture
Leon van Schaik
Spatial intelligence builds our mental space.
 
Sensing Spaces
Architecture Reimagined
 
Oak-Framed Buildings
Rupert Newman
 
Heidegger for Architects
Adam Sharr
 
MAKING
ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Tim Ingold
Touching objects, feeling materials
The Cathedral and the Laboratory
 
A Hut of One's Own
Anne Cline
 
Solar Pavilion
Alison and Peter Smithson
Architecture is not made with the brain
The Parallel of Art and Life
Aesthetics about Perception
Poetics about Production
 
HERZOG & DE MEURON
NATURAL HISTORY
My studio is a piece of architecture that is silent.
Speculative Architecture
On The Aesthetics of Herzog & De Meuron
Robert Kudieka
 
The Thinking Hand
Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
 
The Architecture of Natural Light
Henry Plummer
 
Peter Zumthor
Hortus Conclusus
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
 
The Potentials of Spaces
The Theory and Practice of Scenography and Performance
Alison Oddey, Christine White
 
See Yourself Sensing
Redefining Human Perception
Madeline Schwartzman
 
Collage and Architecture
Jennifer A. E. Shields
 
COLLAGE
Assembling Contemporary Art
Sally O'Reilly
Construction/Abstraction
Body/Identity
Environments/Geographies