Datum Pitch
Sandymount Strand, Dublin
Sandymount Strand, Dublin
An object or place, no matter how unique or remarkable, becomes mundane when familiarity and routine set in. Daily commutes, familiar sights and sounds go unnoticed once they become familiar. The observer finds the ‘datum pitch’ of the area or space. How can perceptions of these (over)familiar places be changed, and their impression and perhaps even relevance to the everyday observers be reinstated and reinforced?
In a familiar landscape an object appears, altering perceptions and refocussing attention on the “mundane”
Changing and disappearing. The very site which it had served to illuminate had now begun to claim it permanently, until no visual evidence of it having existed remained.
Only memory
and a new found way of experiencing the landscape.
Only memory
and a new found way of experiencing the landscape.
