Spatial Aspect
`Spatial Aspect’ (an improvisation with materials) is an assemblage. A construction of small buildings and part buildings. Collected materials and objects, some made, some found. With these an environment is formed with memories of places and an inkling of passing people.
Installation
When explaining this installation I have used the analogy of improvising because I started with out a plan but with many materials and objects, some found some made for possible inclusion .I.e. the ceramic pieces I made, as I believed I would want some structures that could hold some thing up or connect elements together.
I wanted to have in front of me and array of materials (and I was constantly on the look out over the time creating the installation for more materials) that would enable me to construct the’ parts of buildings’ in close proximity to the thoughts I had about what I wanted to create. I collected materials like rubble, tarmac, sand and wood. Very much the discarded materials from the demolition and refurbishment of homes. As I worked in this way memories of buildings and the atmosphere of spaces came and I constructed places I’ve been and lived and worked in. For instance, I worked in a textile mill as it was being shut down and the workers leaving. I created a floor in a room with the spaces where looms have been removed with the vestiges of peoples presence.
I am interested in the materials I use for the feelings they conjure. I use them in this small scale but they invoke the buildings in, particularly London and how buildings juxtaposition with others of different ages and construction methods. Buildings that are abandoned have always intrigued me. It is possible that my life as a squatter in the 80 s in London contributes to this intrigue because of living in buildings that needed repair and sometimes major building works. Hence, I have undertook a lot of building work over the years. I have had a long interest in Materials and how they are used, how they are made and the place they have in the built history.
The atmosphere of these remembered places, the feeling of discovery and exploration, seeing the signs of people that have been there is fascinating and something I wanted to impart in the installation. With the small scale I depicted places I have sat on roofs for contemplation or to catch the sun. I would climb out of a window on to a ledge at the textile mill and the memory is of the warm lead and the tiles. These resting places are particularly interesting to me when they are in industrial buildings or how someone will find a place to shelter under a rock or a chair in the sun. I like the way people build sheds and houses adjacent to natural structures such as in the lee of a boulder or attached to rock, utilising the shelter or the actual stone as their building wall.
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