Memorial Lines (The Addison Act Centenary Sculpture)
The Durham and Gloucester site has been renamed Unity Square reflecting Brent’s Commitment to equality and diversity. The entire site is devoted to social homes. I created this piece to commemorate The Addison Act Centenary and the Durham and Gloucester community. These wooden blocks from the carpenters’ benches bear the cuts of creation for the new homes and look forward to the next 100 years of social housing.
Each cut is connected to a specific time and place in the construction. Negative prints I have taken from these (‘Constellation I-V‘) explore the now untraceable connections of time and place in construction. Cut lines become traces – imaginary threads connecting the old and new communities. Memorial lines lost in space.
This piece was due to be exhibited in The Energy Centre below the site as part of a larger installation I planned for The London Festival of Architecture 2020 but didn’t go ahead due to the pandemic