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This series of work is focused on the floor; striving to bring attention
to feet and were we place them. While working in my studio I found
traces of history in the space; such as the scratch-marks on the
floor and the worn pillars. History dwelling in the walls, ceilings
and floors, however, different from the making of History espoused
in books. These traces do not speak of important moments in time,
but instead express the history of the everyday, and continuous
use. I started thinking of the traces left by history as the "memory"
of the space.
Marc Roudebush speaks about "Between Memory and History"
(Representation 26, Spring, 1998) and has coined an expression
in French; lieux de mémoire, to speak about "sites of
memory." Roudebush says that memory attaches itself to sites,
whereas history to events:
Memory takes root in the concrete, in spaces, gestures, images
and objects; history binds itself strictly to temporal continuities,
to progressions and to relations between things.
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