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Transient Architecture
After my last post, in which I began exploring the possibility of a temporary space for Lucy, I remembered something she said in her presentation last week which makes the idea very fitting. As her books are handmade they are all very delicate, Lucy said that she knows the books won't last forever and won't necessarily even outlive her but that's what she likes about them, they capture a time and a feeling, tell a story that would otherwise have gone untold and then aren't really needed anymore.
I also think escaping is very important to Lucy, she cites one of her inspirations as 'remote residencies and rural retreats'. When we met her she told us how she likes to go away by herself. She records streams of consciousness, turning them in to books about her experience. Books in themselves can be a form of escapism.
I think Lucy is a person that thinks and feels a lot, she needs getaways to clear her mind and inspire her. Maybe a temporary space with a limited life suits her, in the same way as the books it can represent a time and capture a feeling in her life and then she can move on to the next.
I collected some examples of transient architecture/installation:
Transient Architecture
After my last post, in which I began exploring the possibility of a temporary space for Lucy, I remembered something she said in her presentation last week which makes the idea very fitting. As her books are handmade they are all very delicate, Lucy said that she knows the books won't last forever and won't necessarily even outlive her but that's what she likes about them, they capture a time and a feeling, tell a story that would otherwise have gone untold and then aren't really needed anymore.
I also think escaping is very important to Lucy, she cites one of her inspirations as 'remote residencies and rural retreats'. When we met her she told us how she likes to go away by herself. She records streams of consciousness, turning them in to books about her experience. Books in themselves can be a form of escapism.
I think Lucy is a person that thinks and feels a lot, she needs getaways to clear her mind and inspire her. Maybe a temporary space with a limited life suits her, in the same way as the books it can represent a time and capture a feeling in her life and then she can move on to the next.
I collected some examples of transient architecture/installation:
"Plastique Fantastique is an architecture studio that samples the performative possibilities of urban environments." - I think this is a really interesting concept that suits the project brief of storytelling and staging Lucy's work. Plastiques' pieces create an environment in between public and private, an escape from the outside, they capture a small space and a small time and make people stop, think, interact and experience something new in their environment.
Pop up store front - Milan furniture fairwww.storefrontnews.org
Lucy's use of dolls houses and her representation of childhood in previous work during her residency at the V&A Museum really interests me. There is a childlike vulnerability to all of her handmade work and to the concept of escapism and a fabricated reality.
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