It is difficult to define ‘place’ or the notion of ‘place’ as it is to represent it, as to be able to represent something one must understand it and to understand one must feel it. It is safe to say then, that we must experience a place to be able to, or at least attempt to, interpret it. Place is connected with notions of belonging, identity and memory, while space offers an infinite growth and the explorations of the vastness of the universe, which then puts ‘place’ as part of space.
Furthermore, while place and objects define space, it is interesting to understand how the human tries to personify feelings, thoughts and images in touchable and palpable materials. This results in architecture and sculpture and on bigger terms cities. Within this, there is also the notion of home, an interior space and the house as a place.
Through writing and reading for my thesis, the idea of home- what it is, how it shapes us and triggers emotions is a subject that I am more and more drawn towards. I want to discuss and take the notion of ‘space’ beyond the tangible, towards looking at memory as space, a dream as a space and an emotion as a space within the home.
