10 . 04 . 2019

Existing 100 year old shed, cut and sprayed with marble dust and acrylic.

“Non-referential buildings are entities that are themselves meaningful and sense-making and, as such, no less the embodiment of society than buildings were in the past when they were the bearers of common social ideals.”

- Valerio Olgiati, Non Referential Architecture

You are walking this line in the landscape, to your right resides a nurtured plot with manicured turf and wildflowers confined by mulch and brick. To your left the grass grows high and unkept, wildflowers land in the breeze. To your right a house of nostalgic symmetry and painted shingles. To your left a collage of planes, maybe a wall, maybe nothing. To your right the landscape is objectified with comfort and acceptance, to your left uncertainty and vulnerability. A few steps ahead one finds a shed that only the landscape remembers.

might mean nothing

might mean everything

invisible until found

abstract until objectified

a moment of utility

confined by the landscape

revealed through wonder

a path was made

no longer a shed