Give me an empty space - I will make a desk and a chair, install myself behind and reflect on associations within my work and take it as part of my work.
I will reflect on the architecture that is the table and the chair, which makes possible the act of writing and reflecting and I wonder if the act of writing is also part of the architecture.
Furthermore I wonder if the imagined act of myself sitting behind that desk, reflecting and writing, is architecture too.
I wonder if the desk and chair alone are as much architecture as when occupied.
Is the use of space a necessity to define that space as architecture?
Or can space be left alone, material without humans interfering, at most as something to look at, empty - stilled - scenes
I have to think of an artist - whose name I cannot remember - who froze dining tables: glued all together: ashtrays, dirty plates, halfempty wine glasses, dirty spots on the table cloth and so on - he put it all together and made time freeze. Hangs it onto a wall, vertically, presenting it as a traditional artwork.
It is a photograph, a still life in physical form, certainly something to look at.
I'd think of time and how it is possible to feel it, to manipulate it.
