Ceramic Deconstructions of Hidden Architectural Interiors : Spaces/Surfaces/Interiors on Solitude/Sensuality

Sensing Architecture : Movements of  Human Bodies/Spatial Bodies.

Thinking/Making within gestures of drawing spatial speculation.

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Materials as Leaky Things/The Correspondences of Surfaces  : For Tim Ingold.

A Philosophy of Solitude.1933

In Defence of Sensuality.1935

John Cowper Powys

Exploring the space of solitude, to explore ideas and thoughts with a public. The hermit as a proto-performance artist displaying qualities of spirituality, intelligence, artistry and sensuality.

Anne Douglas.

The Hermit Project.

The Follies Journal. 2003

The House Fifteen Foot Square.

The proposed Hermitage at Cadland (drawing).

Interior Spaces.

The Alchemy of Imagination.

In the dead linen in cupboards I seek the supernatural.

Joseph Rouffange.

The wardrobe is filled with linen, there are even moonbeams which I can unfold.

Andre Breton. 1932

The Permanence of Childhood.

On Poetic Imagination and Reverie.

Gaston Bachelard.

While the child was dreaming in solitude, he experienced a limitless existence. His reverie was not merely an escape. It was a reverie of flight. Dreaming of childhood we go back to the den of reveries.

All the ideas that I want to put forth in this chapter tend to establish the persistence in the human soul of a nucleus of childhood. Of a motionless but enduring childhood outside of history, hidden from others disguised as history when it is narrated, but having real existence only in its moments of illumination which is to say in its moments of poetic existence.

Chamber Music/Reverberations.

Constructed Space/Ceramic Forms.

On Silences, Surfaces, Interiors and Depths.

Wardrobes with their shelves, desks with their drawers and chests with their false bottoms are veritable organs of the secret psychological life, indeed without these 'objects' and a few others in equally high favour, our intimate life would lack a model of intimacy.

They are hybrid objects, subject objects, like us, through us, and for us they have a quality of intimacy on the shelves of memory and in the temples of the wardrobe.

But the real wardrobe is not an everyday piece of furniture, it is not opened everyday and so like a heart that confides in no one, the key is not on the door. Many a time we dreamed of the mysteries lying dormant between its wooden flanks.

Rimbaud designates a perspective of hope, what good things are being kept in reserve in the locked wardrobe? This time it is filled with promise, it is something more than a family chronicle.

Exaggeration is always at the summit of any living image, and to add fantasy to linen is to draw a picture, by means of a volute of words off all the superabundant blessings that lie folded in piles between the flanks of an abandoned wardrobe.

An Armada for Childhood : Proposal for Southampton Art Vaults 2008

Possible Worlds

The Sensual Reciprocity of This Enchanted Isle 

Peter Woodcock.

Installation using large paper boats (1.5m long) and mouldmakers plaster for a subterranean  space under the cities walls.

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Dwelling in Brockwood/Kilquhanity : Drawing isn't a matter of tools but perception-a form of engagement.

Outpost 140223

Matters of Concern.

Starting conditions for responsible and curiosity driven engagements with the world. 

Creative entanglements in a world of materials.

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Improvisation is drawing.

Drawing isn't a matter of tools but perception-a form of engagement.

Roni Horn.

Kilquhanity Free School.

Mission statement to enjoy childhood.

Kilquhanity promotes a playful difference amongst the locality.

Back To Freeschool : Drawing Out Of The Archive.

At Freeschool I turned a dwelling place into both a site of introspection and a social construction.

By living together as a social group, learning by the practical 'doing' from which to extract a sense of practical wisdom.

Useful work, promotes a sense of being amongst the social group, of an equality of joined forces for the benefit of Kilquhanity.

Kids encouraged to build camps around the grounds, personal and inter-personal temporary structures that reinforce our sense of 'passing through'.

Kilquhanity seems to suit the individual with confidence and those with good social skills, Architects, Film Makers, Craftspeople, others have found it difficult to rejoin society.

Brockwood Park School

Our consciousness is not actually yours or mine, it is the consciousness of humanity evolved, grown, accumulated through many, many centuries, when one realises this our responsibility becomes extraordinarily important.

J. Krishnamurti.

Projective Speculations, through questioning and research, asking ourselves, how are our intraventions capable of generating previously non-existent possibilities or ideas?

How can architectural projections become tools for engagement in the actual transformation of the world, and to what extent can they be tools for thinking as well as for the articulation, interrogation, and challenging of discourse.

Intraventions in live situations are the main form of engagement, we take part from the inside, in the construction and articulation of 'sites'. We do this by using expanded conditioned, ecologies, localities and actors within a phenomenon in which we operate 'an architecting' as responsibly as possible.

Oren Lieberman, Alberto Altes.

Raveningham Site Visit/Walking in the Landscape.

Ephemeral-Site-Drawings.

The Choreographic Object in The Lanscape.

Land/Demarcations/Spaces/Occurrences with others

Filtered light pieces/land markers

Field Studies/Gathering/Dwelling/Reading/Light/Time/Media

A Phenomenal Lens.

Water/glass dishes/construction, floating/submerged objects/.Cyanotype Print.

Sculptural Array/Sky Watcher/Imaginative Spaces.

Apparatus for Solargraphy.

Mast/Conductor/Transponder,

Hungate Study Day.

Corporeal Annotations.

Reading/Materials/Substances/Phenomena

Water/Light/Architecture/Vessel/Place/Canvas/Filtered Light/Ceramic/Clay

Undercroft Norwich.

Plaster/Slab Components/Assemblages/Forms

Gathering Energies/Planetary Movements/Reveries on Reverie : Blue Drawing 9549

Presentation Slide,  The Architecture of Continuity : Lars Spuybroek, essays and conversations. Rotterdam 2008. The Poetics of Memory "The Cinema of Robert Lepage : Alexsander Dundjerovic. London 2003. Spatiality : Robert T. Tally Jr. London 2013. The Poetics of Reverie "Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos" : Gaston Bachelard (trans Daniel Russell). Boston 1971.

Reveries on Reverie/Reveries toward Childhood

Childhood sees the World illus­trated,  the World  with  its original colors,  its true colors.  The great once-upon-a-time (autrefois) which we relive by dreaming in our memories of childhood is precisely the world of the first time.

For those of us who can only work on written documents, on documents which are produced by a will to 'edit,' a certain indecision cannot be obliterated in the conclusions which terminate our inquiries. In point of fact, who writes? The animus or the anima?

These seasons find  the means to  be singular while remaining universal.  They  circle in  the sky  of Childhood  and  mark  each childhood  with  indelible signs.  Thus our great memories lodge within the zodiac of memory, of a cosmic memory which does not need the precisions of the social memory in order to be psycholog­ically  faithful.  It is the very  memory  of our belonging  to  the world,  to  a world  commanded  by  the dominating  sun.

Gaston Bachelard