non-space

-Places that normally go unnoticed,
-Places that are left alone
-Places that are small and in corners
-Places that have no real use
-Places that no one inhabits

I wanted to react to my studio in a different way.
My feelings toward the studio were unenthusiastic.
I felt it was sucking away my thoughts and inspiration.
When I sat down at an empty desk my mind became as blank as the walls surrounding me.
The room felt distance, a space I couldn’t feel anything towards but annoyance.
I wanted to change this.

Then I noticed a space in-between. It wasn’t part of the studio, bit it wasn’t a separate space. Boards had been put around ½ a metre away from the actual wall of the room. (For last years final degree show?)The space was use for nothing (only dumping rubbish). The greying walls was no longer visible, freshly painted white boards had hidden them. What could this space be?
This inspired me to interact with the room differently.

Adding to this ideas I had to make a 1min film about ‘being animal’. So the film ending up being a combination of reacting to the room how an animal would and trying to engages with the space in another way.

After reading an essay by Ralph Rugoff (taken from the book ‘Psycho Buildings’ that accompanied the exhibition of the same title at the Haywood gallery). I few point stayed with me

-Re-define the uses we make of out surroundings.
-We must confront and respond to the spaces in which we live.
-How does built space function as a social/psychological and perceptual environment?