“The Method Of Loci” is about reconstructing. memory
Just like an archeologist you dig, drill, destroy, ruin, research, reconstruct, and deconstruct spaces you capture in your . What are the characteristics of human experiences? At what level does it occure? At what level does it take shape? All levels of observation of this multiple process are autonomous; in this multiprocessing reality it is never possible to have a vision of oneself, which is exhaustive; each vision is always from a single point of view and cannot be reduced to another.
Reality is a Multiverse.
What was behind that door, at the end of the corridor? I tried to reconstruct a cockloft at my grandparents’ house where I use to play a lot when I was a young child. I’ve got raised in a small apartment, so a giant house in a vast garden, with lots of space to play, hide and discover, was an environment who attracted me more then anything else. My grandfather was an adept of all sorts of electronics, World War II and he was collecting almost anything: The ceilings were fully packed with wires, screws, bolts, battle tank parts, radio’s, model trains, model planes, transistors, strange tools, (early) computer parts. Everything was manically organized, like it was almost symmetrically set up. A narrow pathway forced you to find your way in this exhausting atmosphere of information and techniques. The most important connotation is the experience of the form, the organization, the smell, etc: this is the belly of a military transport aircraft.
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
This was a : the insulation of the overhead compartments is the same in the cockloft. The structure of the “fuselages” match! The view through small round windows is on the same height of the ones you see from an airplane.
mental reconstruction
A obliged is a process of adjusting spaces, of connecting wires, of welding parts, of building anything up, starting from scratch…Or you do need a manual. Or you just make one yourself.
Impresses from original model airplane parts are recreated in gypsum, whereby the cockloft central space’ overhead compartment is fully reconstructed. Surfaces who didn’t gain attention from a infantile mind, and thus are “impossible” to recreate cannot be built. A true milestone was the door at the end of the pathway, where one was not allowed to go. “Too dangerous”. I never knew what was behind that door. All models are built around that particular door… A small video screen on the spot where the door is, focuses on what could have been “behind the scene”.