Into the Attic

Guided by Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space as well as contributed essays included in Odette England’s Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes' Unseen Photograph, I climb up the creaking ladder into my forbidding attic with compassion and respect for its site of storage and secluded solitude.

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Presented is an excavation of the attic of my childhood home centering on the attic as a universal space of stored memory and verticality.

 

Artistically concerned with space, its structure, contents, and embedded memories. I focus on photography and the planes of the image, the difference between the meaning and context of capturing a space versus the sensibility of being lured towards details within the space. By combining formats of old and new technology I generate the experience of remembering and the passage of time.