Notes from the dwelling
Woodprint and ink drawing
5 Part: 198 cm x 181 cm x 64 cm
Artist’s Statement
Notes From The Dwelling is a quiet, visual archive of ordinary moments and architectural surroundings. Through the use of ink drawings and woodcut prints, the work documents fragments of lived space out of its context. A table strewn with possessions, a university building passed daily but seldom truly seen, a sketchbook suspended between process and preservation. These frames are not illustrations of objects, but rather evidence of attention.
The series is centred around the fictional ‘Buildings and Their Implications Institute’. This is an imagined society that treats drawings as an ‘approved’ form of architectural and emotional documentation. The Institute’s logo appears as stamped on selected works, transforming intimate images into institutional artefacts. Within this gesture, the work questions how meaning is assigned, who authorises it, and what counts as a valid record of place and thought.
Observers are not an outsider to this process, but are intended as potential members of the Institute – someone who has, perhaps, also noticed the peculiar corner of a room, or paused before a building that is so beautiful, yet historically complex. Here, Notes From The Dwelling becomes an invitation to look closer, to slow down — to dwell. To consider the settings and scenes of one’s own life as carriers of their personal narrative.
This is not one resolved story, but a glimpse into the tales from our individual lives. Through these accumulated field notes, Notes From The Dwelling proposes that the mundane is monumental if only we choose to notice it.
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