Category: 1.1 Investigate

02/11/2020

After showing my progress last week and discussing with my tutor and classmates, I decided to engage further with two of the topics I had developed till that point. These are time and activities.

For me it was important to explore further how the space between two trees is influenced by the time of day, and how this relates to the activities that happen (or don’t happen) in it.

In order to investigate these topics, I found inspiration in the work of Bernd & Hilla Becher, Idris Khan and Pelle Cass.

26/10/2020

We often think of a “space” in terms of area and volume. It’s easier to understand it as something enclosed and limited by certain boundaries, whether these ase walls, borders or even just lines drawn on the floor. However, what if we think of “space” in terms of experience? Does it matter where that “space” begins and ends?

For this project I raised those questions and came to think of trees. We could easily describe the limits of a tree as a physical object. But, doesn’t what happen around it, under it or beside it affect the limits of it when we analyse it as a “space” whether than as an object? What happens under a tree or set of trees? What activities occur? What factors determine the existence or lack of experiences that surround them?

The material next to this text reflects the process of an exploration about these topics, taking the “space” between two trees in Finsbury Park as a site of study.