Spaces of Memory and Imagination

RATIONALE

The delicate configuration of this artefact was designed with the intention to elicit perceptible interfaces of memory and imagination of an individual engaged in its form. These sensations are experienced as dimensions of perceptual phenomena, in which the sensory thresholds of memory and imagination are induced by the imaginative psyche of the individual. An individual immersed in this cognitive engagement projects their perceptions and feelings onto the blank canvas of the twisted planar form. This cognitive action activates the domain of presence within the metropolis of the mind: where a fusion of memory and fantasy transpire in an attempt to rationalise the representational values of the form, and questions arise about what it could mean or represent.

REFERENCE TO LITERATURE

In 'Spaces of Memory and Imagination' Pallasmaa focuses on the value that memory and imagination has in the domain of presence. Drawing on examples from literature, cinema, paintings, and architecture: he discusses the presence of place, and how this phenomena is interpreted and imagined when experiencing these works of art. Through these mediums, Pallasmaa infers how representation in the arts have the potential to evoke a real sense of experience that is elicited by memory and imagination. He explains that this experience is awakened through interactions between the aura of a work of art, and the feelings and precepts the viewer reciprocates back onto the work. In this sense, Pallasmaa describes how the viewer is able to encounter themselves in a work of art through a full sense of experience, as they enter the realm represented by the artwork through the interactive exchange of their own perceptions, memory, fantasy and imagination.

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