Royal Academy of Art: Inside

Yes, this is us. Instrument and house. House and cosmos, every me, another me. Each room, another place. It’s in this house, in its metaphor and matter, that the memories and dreams of mankind come to rest.

I dream of you, your gentle arms, your warm embrace. Your walls, as they guard me from that which lies outside. Inside, the echoes of a life lived reverberate, fill the space with their immaterial, invisible presence.

I dream of laughter, of cry, of joy and ache, I dream of life. A house is a verb; filled with promises and invitations. To experience a window: I think of the time you hold within yourself, confined in the space in-between the walls, the floor, the ceiling.

I think of your silence, your attentive nature. ‘'We don’t live only in space and place, as we also inhabit time.’’

(Pallasmaa, Juhani. “Images of Time.” Essay. In The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in 1 Architecture, 078. Chichester: Wiley, 2011)