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What does it mean to have a sense of place? Where does it come from? Is it innate and immutable – the result of a perfect collision between environmental, constructed and human elements? Or can it be generated from ‘nothing’, shaped deliberately and consciously?
We often think of lobbies and threshold zones ie. entrances, foyers, corridors as transitional spaces: places we pass through. But exactly because they are passed through so often, they carry a strange potency. These are the moments when we shift — from street to interior, from public to private, from one state of mind to another. In these liminal edges, art can do something remarkable: it can draw us in, make us pause, and remind us we are part of a larger narrative…
To be honest the first time I started working with wood I remember thinking— wow there is a lot of measuring...— Olive Gill-Hille