R E M A I N S O F T H E D A Y

“Remains of the Day”, Knoll+Cella, c-prints, 4x5 negatives, 60x48”, 30 images, 2010.

THESE images are collected from in-between spaces, buildings on their way down or up, construction, decay, and at liminal times, dawn, dusk and the middle of the night, in between one day and the next. Relics of transitions from one day or purpose to another form an uncanny e veryday archeology. Abandoned houses, post-par ty zones, construction sites, and closed shops hold clues to lives lived impermeably by day. These images document what we experience as temporary Pompeii-like sites where things stopped abruptly with the five o’clock whistle, a change of shifts or fortunes.

In “Architecture from the Outside” philosopher Elizabeth Grosz describes it this way: “The times before and after time are the loci of emergence, of unfolding, of eruption, the space-times of the new, the unthought...” pinpointing our excitement and sustained interest.