Ida Thunström

Syncopes And Skin And The Heartbeat Of Tsarino

 
The house I chose as my working subject consists of three rooms. I selected a specific visual aspect of each room and focused on these.

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With graphite and charcoal I made changes to these parts, photographed them and used the prints as the basis for my work.

With the use of prints, drawings and text, I reconstructed the rooms into a set of collages that developed into of a book consisting of three chapters.

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Room one: a window.

Room two: the walls and corners.

Room three: three vertical holes on a wall.

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The book as a medium contains a strong element of intimacy with its reader, and the defined borders, a beginning and an end, sets it free from its surroundings so it can keep the context strictly to itself.

By using this form of expression I could build up a new room and create a story that with the help of time could grow within its own frames, just like the houses of Tsarino.

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As always in my work, some words and forms from previous works were added to the process and the system of symbols that was developed.

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