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if you want to read some of my thoughts and ideas
if you want to see some spaces and objects where I was involved
if you want to text me
if you want to look at some formalities
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if you want to see what i sometimes see
„The distance of the earth“ is a situated writing, with different real and not-so-real experiences, based on perspectives through dust – within architecture. The project links between the wall (culture), the air/dust (nature), and the body (human). Writing here becomes a tool to challenge architecture as a dominant visual practice, while creating an authentic position and representation within the debate about the dichotomy of nature/culture.
If you follow the dust, you might understand the Earth. The story turns into visual memory writing and has reference to Jozef Wouter’s “Soft Layer”, Italo Calvino’s “The Distance of the Moon” and McKanzie Wark’s “Raving”.
Krzkz (The protagonist) and her brother live in an exaggerated landscape - “the home”. After reading a newspapers article on human perception of the earth, Krzkz decides to explore the world and write letters back to her brother – to find a place closer to the earth. The home is clean and pure, dust is externalized and far away, stored in the dumpsite.
So, she starts travelling through the filthy outside and arrives at an abandoned landscape in a city full of dust. After reading the buildings, she reflects on her feeling of being disgusted but also authentically connected. She feels the beauty in the reflections of dust. Krzkz closes her eyes and dreams about a new place, to invite others – an event full of dust to make you see nothing, but the dependency of your own eyes vision.
The design (dream) links the front yard with the backyard. A breakthrough itself requires the removal of six windows. Krzkz closes the inner room with dust traps and makes use of the darkness to install light beams through the air. She positions the entrance as a distraction for the wind, mostly from the west, to slow it down and make it float around. Any light from the outside remains indirect. The installed materials will alter and grow over time as a result of human bodies and natural wind force.
It involves a structure with existing beams from the abandoned site. Textiles wrapped around the polycarbonate panels create dust attractors. She places the intervention right inside the windiest location to create a funnel. Half of the installation remains outside, the other half inside, the transition would become an effect of bright to dark, pure to filth – losing own’s vision while seeing the most in small reflections of dust particles.
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