OST: Architecture Conflict Occupation
‘After only ten minutes I stopped. There at my feet, next to pine needles and twigs lay the cold hard facts of what had happened here. There was no beauty in what I had found – no aesthetic, only rusty pieces of brutal metal, a picture frame, live ordnance, a child’s shoe, buttons and the remains of a gas mask’
Ian Cale, diary entry 27th September 2016
One year later I returned to the exact same spot only to find the very same objects in the same place. Untouched. The items were given a global reference point, carefully removed and wrapped in tissue and brown paper. On returning to the UK they were drawn to exact detail.
Through the process of observing and drawing I can better understand their personal significance and context in which they were lost. And now found. The aim is to return the objects to their original position.
This has led to a collection of personal effects and ephemera as diverse as wallpaper, fragments of clothing, diaries and photographs. Most notably a collection of faded black and white photographs from the 1970’s of a Soviet soldier with his comrades, found intact in their original envelope.
Ian Cale, diary entry 27th September 2016
One year later I returned to the exact same spot only to find the very same objects in the same place. Untouched. The items were given a global reference point, carefully removed and wrapped in tissue and brown paper. On returning to the UK they were drawn to exact detail.
Through the process of observing and drawing I can better understand their personal significance and context in which they were lost. And now found. The aim is to return the objects to their original position.
This has led to a collection of personal effects and ephemera as diverse as wallpaper, fragments of clothing, diaries and photographs. Most notably a collection of faded black and white photographs from the 1970’s of a Soviet soldier with his comrades, found intact in their original envelope.