The functionality of an American campus architecture and space makes us go in very specific directions, flows of students condense in ant lines during rush hours. Flora and squirrels tries to compensate concrete, and yet structuring is everywhere. The library becomes a heavily disembodied space as well.
Can we go beyond the utility of this architecture by making these buildings ours ? Could they transform into a breathing space ?
Shooting dancer Tara Brandel in a common movement experiment was a ritual of surrendering ourselves to the void of UC Davis Shields Library. Attempts to find balance in that place which represents expansion through research, and yet is physically and structurally enclosed.
The shooting process echoed what came out of it : while wondering about the boundaries of the space and its users, nobody watched us.
This unsettling unawareness of our presence gave us liberty to explore small disruptions.
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BETWEEN THE LINES
35 mm b&w series