Deep In Time, Installation View.
Decaying. Ruining.
This earth has walls, you’re within, pillars of rock sinking into the floor.
‘Deep In Time’ investigates the relationship between geology and architecture. The vacant Reading Cinemas on Courtenay Place compresses, and constructs a filmic terrain.
Time moves imperceptibly slowly – inwards, downwards – unearthing the quiet rumbling, watching the change between silt and steel.
The architecture is the earth. And the earth is the architecture.
(Honours project, 2024 - Spatial Studio)
The earth is the architecture, and the architecture is the earth. The cinema of geology surrounds you, and it has walls. Pillars of rock sink down, and you sink with them. The ruins of architecture, of modernity, fuse with the earth it came from. The pillars are the remains of the building that once was. The floor rumbles, and the walls groan with movement of gravel and metal.
Time starts to slow the longer you are within.
Slower
and slower,
but never to reach the immensity of deep, geologic time.
And so,
you only fall deeper into time, but never to its depths.