To Samantha Jones
2 October 2014
2Up2Down / Homebaked, Jeanne van Heeswijk
Samantha Jones
Liverpool, UK
Liverpool, UK
2 October 2014
Dear Sam
It was good to have the chance to visit Homebaked again on Tuesday. In the streets around the bakery, so much has disappeared even since I was first there six months ago.
It’s very interesting to me, your idea to commission art for the gaps, the negative spaces left behind by the demolition of houses, not least since many of the gaps no longer register as gaps — as Sally pointed out. The more gaps that are created, the fewer gaps appear.
How to visualise the undoing of a neighbourhood over time?
What is the role of such visualisation in the collective task of imagining alternative futures for that neighbourhood?
I very much appreciated your text on Homebaked in issue 2 of Stages. Patience, slowness, resilience — there’s a very particular and powerful sense of time and movement in your account: something like the time it takes to move through a glutinous substance.
D
