Habitual
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Architecture of Migration

Architecture of Memory

Habitual

Seventeen Stories

OTHER

Installation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
         
       
  Excerpt from 'Habitual', 2010
35 mins DVD
Projected to 2 metre high installation
     
 

Habitual is a video recording a ten hour period in an abandoned house in Roscommon, Ireland. It captures the darkness of night and observes the slow movement of light and the awakening of the abandoned room and its contents. Time is accelerated allowing the viewer watch the light move beautifully within the space and creates a poetic representation of time passing through this forgotten space. The movement of light is interrupted when a robin becomes imprisoned in the space. The robin slowly struggles to free itself from the room to no avail. This struggle evokes themes of the endless cycle of life and death.