Deconstruction of Construction

This project explores the ever-changing landscape of the spaces we make, and the temporal nature of creating these spaces. The construction site can be a beautiful place; where bricks and mortar can be transformed into walls, chiseled slate becomes shelter, where an alchemist can turn powder and water into rock. However these things are then forgotten once the building is complete; secret markings hide behind plaster, blood washed away by the rain, rubble and metal taken away…

I worked on the construction of this building, a house made for an artist as a matter of fact, and the thought of this being a different kind of space for an artist was intriguing.

I wanted to take a Derridian approach of deconstruction of this building, where all aspects are looked at and appreciated, not just the final building.

These pieces encompass some of the aspects of the construction of the space that are no longer appart of the space. They comprise of some combine pieces which were made on site, and some screenprinted compostions.

These explorations hope to show the beauty in the grimmy and dirty and imperfect, the fleeting moments of the not-so glamorous.

Deconstructivism - Walker Shaw