Remoteness leaves an imprint on our perception of the surroundings. This project explores the elongation and compression of architectural production, space, and time, through the medium of painting. Deriving from the imprints of a Pompeii ruin, an inventory of rooms – from the very large to the uncomfortably small - turns into an expression of painterly architectonic experiences.

A painter’s house in the Chilean vineyards is composed of a series of ‘C’s that embrace but never touch, experiences that coexist but do not correspond. As one navigates between columns, the building reads both monumental and intimate, sublime and mundane. On one edge, the project carves into the rocky landscape as it opens onto the sea of vines. On the other, the painted mural wraps around its walls - blurring reality and fiction, nature and artifice. Planes collide and distances dissolve. Time and space become cyclical in a journey that folds upon itself.

’Let me sit here forever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.’
(Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931)