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‘How can the presence and memory of given entities develop architectural agency to help define and understand the spaces humans inhabit?’ This will be carried out primarily through designled research. the methodological framework follows Murray Fraser, Jane Rendell, and Peter Downton, and pursues an iterative approach to exploration. Some of the methods used include drawing, photography, digital modelling, analogue modelling, etching, printing & collage.
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Fiona Pardington “She brings to a contemporary audience an awareness of traditional and forgotten objects. Pardington is renowned for her ability to breathe life force back into these objects and to raise global awareness of the importance of conservation. She interrogates death and celebrates collecting and preservation.� -Starkwhite Gallery
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memory, presence, life & death, land and the human body. 6
memory, presence, life & death, land and the human body. 7
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Pirinoa is a small rural settlement in the Wairarapa. It sits west of the Rimutaka Ranges and East of Aorangi Forest. Lake Wairarapa lies to the north and Lake Ōnoke to the South. All of these land marks are significant to Māori and to Pākehā for very different reasons. Pirinoa was once part of one the largest wetlands in Te Ika a Maui. In 1963 the government changed the flow of the Ruamahanga river decimating Lake Wairarapa and draining the surrounding wetlands. Dairy farming is still intense in this area, causing concern for the future.
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pirinoa topography
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pirinoa topography
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print on paper
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“Reality, then, as concepts such as ‘landscape’ or ‘space’, is not something external and ‘given’ for our apprehension; rather it is constituted, or ‘formed’, through our participation with things: material object, images, values,cultural codes, places, cognitive schemata, events and maps.” “Ideas about spatiality are moving away from physical objects and forms towrdas the variety of territorial, political,and psycological social processes that flow through space. The experiences of space cannot be separated from the events that happen in it; space is situated, contingent and differentiated.” -James Corner
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print on paper
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print on paper
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acrylic & ink
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acrylic & ink
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acrylic & ink 28
acrylic & ink 29
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“If we attribute a meaning to a thing that is present, that is, if we form an idea of what this thing may be in relation to us, we seem to attenuate, inevitably, the impact that this thing can have on our bodies and our senses.” ‘That any form of communication implies such a production of presence, that any form of communication, through its material elements, will “touch” the bodies of the persons who are communicating in specific and varying ways.” -Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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acrylic, ink & human 32
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acrylic, ink & human 34
acrylic, ink & human 35
acrylic, ink & human
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ink, digital, pencil
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pen & pencil
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pen, ink & digital
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“If we attribute a meaning to a thing that is present, that is, if we form an idea of what this thing may be in relation to us, we seem to attenuate, inevitably, the impact that this thing can have on our bodies and our senses.” ‘That any form of communication implies such a production of presence, that any form of communication, through its material elements, will “touch” the bodies of the persons who are communicating in specific and varying ways.” -Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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pirinoa site map
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