Aptly named the Yin and Yang apartment, the project balances work/life spaces by linking rather than demarcating them.
A Project Profile: March 2021
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Etta James’ voice leaves me breathless. But not in the usual way.
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As though I’d crossed an invisible threshold and been sucked into another world…I was shopping in a life-sized doll house.
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Flakes of red get caught in the deep ravines of her upper lip…
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Some people find comfort in the strangest of places; camping, IKEA, Love Island. I like dingy cobblestoned alleyways, with officers that are busy, arrogant and a bit self-righteous who spend most of their working life in some kind of transit.
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In my bedtime stories, I was the Secretary General of the United Nations.
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Capernaum is a film about an 11 year-old boy (Zain) who, while serving a five year prison sentence, sues his parents for giving birth to him.
Read MoreYou’ll be told to say hello to everyone
look them in the eye,
Smiling at a small community - earn your place.
But please don’t tell them everything,
just in case.
As he walks he holds his posture in a V shape, hinging from his hips, his torso leans back, to balance the weight of the huge stomach that cantilevers over his legs.
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Upon finishing Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘Say Nothing’, a work of investigative journalism that pieces together the broken fragments of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland, I was bursting with a sense of injustice and confusion about whether I was immorally sympathising with terrorists.
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Scientifically they are charged particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field. Mystically, they are the Northern lights. Iceland is a country where natural wonders are abundant. Volcanic islands sit on standby beside the mainland, remnants of lava formations create oddly rippled mountain ranges and blue lagoons beckon.
Read MoreA million years to form, a blue sapphire takes a fingerprint
from the meta-rock around it, while the titanium seeps in.
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Rebecca is a story, written by Daphne du Maurier about a young woman who marries a rich older man and attempts to become the mistress of his mansion Manderley. Prior to this marriage, the older man, Mr De Winter, had had another wife. Rebecca was an extremely glamorous and vibrant woman.
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In Orwell’s fictional state of Oceania, paranoia breeds fear, and the human reaction to fear is to seek protection. This combination led the citizens of Oceania into the Party’s arms.
Read MoreIt’s not so much that the thread is loose… it’s the weighing potential for it to completely unravel. And it’s not only that it could unravel, but that it could do so at an uncontrollable moment, poking a hole in your somewhat crafted self-assurance. Leaving it flailing.
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Photographers and Architects both frame space and are selective when at work. In his book, Spectrum, John Pawson clarifies the distinctions between the two practices, despite also evincing a common sentiment.
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Architecture gives context to the values held during a particular time, in a certain place. A little like art. Even more so, a gallery’s design acts as a precursor, setting the tone for the art inside.
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The way that art is consumed changes constantly. From social media, where art is viewed through someone else’s lens, to street art where unassuming bystanders become an audience. But these are only a couple of ways to consider the changing consumption of art.
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Quite a lot can be gleaned about a person from the way they spend their lunch hour. For example, are you:
a. Someone who catches themself looking down at their keyboard wondering how long the bits of brown rice and quinoa have been stuck in it?
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