Silence

I grew up in a city, which together with its environs has reached a dimension of approximately 22 million inhabitants. The permanent confrontation with noise and chaos, and the bombardment of images, which are attributes of all big conglomerates, generated my desire to search for silence. Our contemporary thinking about silence sees it as an absence or a lack of speech or sound - a negative condition. Instead I identified an interior dimension of silence, a sort of stillness of mind, which is not a void but a rich space. In contrast to natural places, which are shaped by the constant rhythm of nature, the history of buildings is very often formed by disruption. The interventions of its inhabitants or users create traces, which overlay each other during the years, and can be read as archaeological layers. Those layers, which exist in a physical sense, illustrate in a comprehensible way a framework, in which changes have taken place. However, the actual experience of a certain place emerges in our minds caused by its aura. By establishing connections between interior spaces in decay with pristine natural landscapes, I try to create metaphors about the fate of those interiors, returning to their initial state, where nature regains its lost space.