Abandoned spaces - further notes

I seem to have found a special interest in raw spaces where a human presence and therefore absence is felt. I think that leads back to my childhood where I withdrew myself into my room or into the bathroom to shut everyone out of my life and re-tank some energy. For me is the question if those photographs ar the actual work or is it the experience of going into an empty space. Is it the actual act - a performance the experience of being on my own in a room, while I am taking those. The experience of loneliness. (my dreams of spaces after an atomar strike). When I went into that block I felt slightly scared. There ws this tension between courage and comfort and fear and the need to be quick - switch the ligths on. The frear didn't come from being alone but from the worries that someone is there I am not aware of who might have bad intentions - the frear of being helpless. The ambiguity takes the power out of my hands - a power which is mine in a room I have cotnrol and sight over. As soon as there is a "dark" space/corner - something you can't see into then the mind fills the space with imagination. 85% (I think it once said) of fear is unaccommodated. To trigger fear there does not have to be anybody
One of the first times I was really aware of the power of space was when I visited the Freiburger Muenster in Germany. Sitting in a space that was almost completely empty made me feel the full power of space - and I am not religious.














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