The Inside Space In Rachel Whiteread's House

Inside were curtains, a couch, a stove, and potholders. You are where you live. She was somebody.” (Quindlen, n.d.) Immediately, as a reader, I felt the emotional weight and connected to Quindlen and her homeless friend Ann. Quindlen’s description of the photograph allowed me feel as if I had lost something, even though there was no physical connection.

The poetry of Cathy Song is a flowing collection of soft spoken and colorful imagery. She gently weaves her thoughts into an imaginative yet graceful story that has an overall sensual tone to it. Cathy invites the reader into her personal sanctuary of memories. She allows the reader to share in some of her most personal and critical moments in life. Some may think these things mundane but, when reading her poetry you can feel how utterly important they are to her. This can be evidenced in her poem The White Porch. Cathy uses this poem to allow the reader to participate in that moment of a woman’s life when she realizes that she is no longer a child.

For many, abandoned buildings hold keys to the past. They are places frozen in time- authentic, eerie, and intriguing all in the same. Photographer and mixed media artist Samuel Quinn is one willing to break laws and trespass property in order to explore and capture these deserted wonders. In 2008, while in the South Shore driving his friend home, Quinn passed an eye-catching abandoned white house that stood lifeless in between two simple suburban homes. Two years later, in need of a new project, he traveled back to the house and began taking photographs for his portfolio A Houses Echo, which, as he describes, holds “portraits of a family who once lived in a house. A house

What does a house represent? For most people a house is a shelter from the weather, a safe environment, a place where one finds stability and strength, and where family gets together. In the novel written by Sandra Cisneros, “The House on Mango Street”, the author tries to explain that every person owns a home with which an individual identifies, it describes who one is, and determined by how a individual view itself, and so it is what makes every person unique. However, for Esperanza, the House on Mango Streets symbolizes the struggles they went through and the poverty they live in.

For example, the image entitled The Baby’s Playground (Chen, 4), resonates with Von Hoffman’s description of the urban slum, “a residential environment that degraded and harmed the poor” (Von Hoffman, 2). In the image an infant is seen isolated in a dark and ominous hallway. Nearest to her vicinity there is the inhabitants

I am drawn to this segment due to the descriptive quality given to the street itself and the visual impressions I am able to produce as a result of them. The street had been given the ability to imitate various aspects of what would normally be found inside a home. For example, the phrase the empty hat-stand trees, brings a specific image of a trees with long branches that are absent of leaves, reaching towards the sky and awaiting for an item to be hung on them. As well as the snow resembling carpet in the dead of winter. While the houses and apartments were enabled the capacity to have the feeling of being nervous.

The artist of this artwork chooses to portray many things within the constraints of their paper. I will attempt to dissect such things. Firstly, the town. It’s bleak, black, and blazing, with a fews spots of color: the windows. I see this as a representation of the individuality of what small amount of culture remains, especially for those of color. It epitomizes the assimilation of their culture to that of the white majority.

I was shuffled into a white room with two stainless steel chairs facing each other across a table that was bolted to the floor. They told me to just sit down and wait. After a couple of minutes I watched as an Officer came in. He had a red folder in his hands. “What am I doing here?” I asked as he sat down. He didn’t say anything just sat down, opened the folder and took out what looked like pictures. “What are those?” I tried talking again.

The author uses tone and images throughout to compare and contrast the concepts of “black wealth” and a “hard life”. The author combines the use of images with blunt word combinations to make her point. For example, “you always remember things like living in Woodlawn/with no inside toilet” (line 3). This image evokes the warmth of remembering a special community with the negative of having to use outdoor facilities. Another example of this combination of tone and imagery is “how good the water felt/ when you got your bath from one/ of those/ big tubs that folk in chicago barbecue in” (line 9). Again, the poet’s positive memory of feeling fresh after her bath is combined with the fact that she had to bathe in a barbecue drum.

On one hand, Lamouroux finds his source of inspiration from the motel’s visual negation to the contemporary urban landscape. On the other hand, Projection reworks the contemporary perception of Silver Lake. Lamouroux emphasizes on the site-specific nature of Projection––the work will inevitably decay. In her essay “One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity,” Miwon Kwon states that “the guarantee of a specific relationship between an artwork and its ‘site’ is not based on a physical permanence of that relationship, but rather on the recognition of its unfixed impermanence, to be experienced as an unrepeatable and fleeting situation.” Projection is temporary in terms of both its physical nature and in a typical viewer’s encounter with the work. There is very little foot traffic on this section of Sunset Boulevard, unless someone is purposely looking for the site, then the viewer would encounter passing by in their car. However in it fixed position and blatant calling out for attention, the site forces the viewer to stop, disrupting their everyday routine to ponder on the future of the site and its

They have made the field of architecture to fulfill a purpose. According to Neri, Rachel Whiteread and Andrea Zittel have made their art look like architecture a situation that has greatly contributed to the field of architecture. Through her works, Zittel explores how people have re-adapted the perceptions of freedom for contemporary living and this represents her main emphasis and focus. That is, her focus is in personal liberation through her works. As it has been indicated earlier, Zittel brought the home out of its usual setting and placed it in the desert where an individual can enjoy his/her privacy – away from the public. On the contrary, Whiteread brought the bathroom out of the house and placed it in the middle of the street – brought the private into the

In the successful novel the virgin suicides, Jeffrey Eugenide’s uses a range of devices to conceptualize what’s going on inside the Lisbon’s house and capture the sense of isolation and how he personifies their house and the environment surrounding it. This causes the reader to actually feel the atmosphere of darkness and picture the decay, and the light flickering out, inside the Lisbon’s house and within the girl’s themselves.

His architecture has a strong identity of “scar” that reinforce the building yet preserved its story. It’s a construction that combines new and old, reconciling them, accepting in a form of unity. The scar acts as a mark of pride and honor for that which are lost and gained. It also creates a new form of knowledge where the city of people, of individuals, each has a story to tell that exhibit their scars, which retell a new history. A story of resourcefulness and invention that’s distant from the rules create by conformity to social norms again referencing it with politics and social justice. At first glance, it may just look like an ordinary restructure on a building but at closer inspection and understanding, it tells a deeper meaning with different layers of

In order to link the use of abandonment and aesthetic beauty, the background to Gordon Matta-Clark will be briefly outlined. Known for his site-specific ‘building cuts’ made in the 1970s, Matta-Clark draws our attention to the fact that we are usually too busy to notice the other significances of our living space besides its domestic function. Apart from its interior equipment, we care little about a building’s character, which may lack functionality or an attractive aesthetic. Matta-Clark’s works usually focus on the abandoned building from which he removes sections of ceilings, floors, and walls, as a part of so-called “Anarchitecture”. He spent several years studying French literature in Paris in 1968, the source of his

Centered in the house is a ramp that takes you on a journey from the underbelly of the house on the ground floor to the main body on the first floor and then on to a roof garden. Throughout the house views of the surrounding nature are framed, your mind is free marvel, as the forms evoke a sense of exploration and delight. Villa Savoye is better experienced than viewed through an image, only then can you understand the greater meaning and purpose that informs its beauty. One might argue that this is not beautiful architecture and a poor example, however upon visiting this house you cannot deny that the house is beautiful in its own right, evoking a response from the occupant. Le Corbusier’s masterpiece is moving; therefore achieving what he believed architecture to be about. This experience and the emotion that is felt can only be described in words. Shapes play a big role in the architecture but clearly the meanings behind are more important.