At its core I believe my practice to focus on a story: An object's story, its pre-existence. Questioning, wondering, investigating the journey it has taken through a multi-disciplinary site specific approach to examine, challenge and understand space phenomenologically, textually and physically.
A crack in a wall
A pothole in the road
A chip on a cup
Each show a sign of a life, the presence of a being, a force upon its natural existence which has in some way altered its appearance and journey.
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There is the trace of humanity in these mere things – handled, then used up, close to exhaustion or extinction. I understand this “mereness” of things, not only in terms of a used, discarded object that had gained an identity or singularity by being used, but, more fundamentally, as identified as something that becomes lodged in the things themselves and therefore relates to the relationships that a subject can establish with them.
Livia Marin