I recently visited the surrealist house exhibition in the barbican centre. It bought to light something I had been trying to put my finger on for ages. The idea of the house as an expression of self. A location acting as an innate part of artistic practice and how we live, it says so much more than it might on face value, becoming, even, ourselves, a self fulfilling prophesy told though our homes.
I want to live in the Barbican centre, it is something my boyfriend and I have been working towards unconsciously.
So British so brutal so simple, so that I associate with it.
These images are of my dear Hana, in a house we live near, it is to be torn down soon. So that they might bring down the old in favour of the new. The house is beautiful, it has its own heart beat, its own putrefying smells, perhaps it is dying.
Its so still with silluettes in oubliette’s, waiting , waiting for us.
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i`m loving this series too.
ReplyDeletei adore how you describe places Ellen, and how you visually show them.i could get your feelings you had about this house while seeing the pics!
I'm so in love with this series, as well, Ellen! What an incredible building you have captured...how powerful it must have been to explore it! I'm so happy that you immortalized it's image, and that you were able to discover it's life with Hana.
ReplyDeleteKris! Eni!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much dears, it was a wonder to explore this place with Hana, we visited again with my boyfriend and he took his video camera, you an see the footage here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tobiaswarwick#p/a/u/0/2LtzAkxJahQ
oh, hana's crown of flowers... !
ReplyDeletegod, these are gorgeous. they have a frequency, a place somewhere just above our heads where the whispers travel between the walls and the floorboards. living, breathing, life. to look at these makes me so happy.
Annie, My Annie,
ReplyDeleteI found the flowers in the dilapidated gardens surrounding the Manor, I made it for Hana, it reminded me of the rose you pressed as i made it.
I hope your day is going well my dear!
they are beautiful, dear ellen. it reminds me of the crown in my dream!
ReplyDeletetoday is a comedy or errors at the office, i've probably laughed more than i've worked so far. i am sneaking this little message to you between calls. xx!!
hehe, on Annie, I was writing to you, and this comment poped up saying the same thing! our minds work in tangent!!
ReplyDeletethanks for the feedback:)
ReplyDeleteso cool
Dear Eni, you are very welcome, do you have any of your work online so that i may see. i am very intrigued! X
ReplyDeleteThis place is utterly dreamy and these images totally rivetting.
ReplyDeleteCaptivating.
Also, what a good thing that you've been able to photograph this place before it disapears forever ...
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Mathyld, this is a beautiful name, thank you so much for saying so, it is an incredable place, quite heartbreaking to see it die this way.
ReplyDeleteAmazing and surrealist shoot!
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