OUT-LINES the beginnings

“Space is experienced as the given which precedes the objects in it, in the absence of such objects, (it is assumed) space would still exist, as an empty boundless container.”
Rudolph Arnheim

“It is not about indiscriminately weaving sites of interim use into a context but about making these gaps visible and activating them by means of freeing them.” Barbara Holub and Paul Rajakovics Temporary Urban Spaces

Harold and the Purple Crayon
“Harold also does not know what it is he will create – though the landscape and everything in it is his own mental space he has the capacity to be surprised by his work. His tree “turns out to be” an apple tree, and he is frightened by his own dragon; he draws an ocean without realizing it and falls in. His imagination is both his, and something external (as "genius," in the ancient world, was a kind of daemon who followed us around)” Geoff Klock geoffklock.blogspot.com



Harold creates things out of thin air, he outlines objects and places, and then is able to occupy them. Out of nothing, he uses the purple crayon to divide up the infinite white space into visible territories.

We plan to use white flagging tape as my crayon. View it as white out. A white out scribble that attempts to create spaces within a field of elements. We attempt to circle, highlight, and connect elements, to wall them off creating spontaneous spaces. Spaces out of thin air.

Word find puzzle. Select out of a field of letters specific words. By circling these letters the words become apparent, the answer is revealed. Someone creates a word find puzzle; it is a hunt to find planted, “hidden” words. There is a finite answer; there is an answer key.



We propose finding spaces in settings that do not have an answer key. These spaces, while made by humans, are not planned spaces. We endeavor to find the hidden spaces, encircling them to make then noticeable, to make them obvious.



To support the idea that spaces can be truly discovered and are not just places that have been hidden by a designer or architect, We will also work in a natural environment not planned by anyone.