space without architecture

I ask myself what is the purpose of all of this? What do I want to study and what do I want to say about it? To construct space. What does that mean? To reconstruct space? To use landscape as a subject matter? To talk about landscape? What does the landscape say? What do I say about it? Are words necessary? Is narrative necessary? What makes it accessible? What is my point of view about that place? How does this relate to graphic design?

Photographic experimentation is the means with which I want to construct space. A narrative constructed out of juxtaposed fragments is how I have described my end product. Again, the questions beckon: “Is this graphic design?” And, “Why should anyone care?”

To answer those nagging questions, I think that my manner of transformation is what makes my thesis inquiry applicable to graphic design. I am representing 3D space, into a 2D medium. I am interested in capturing simultaneity of time in this flatted photograph, to capture dimensionality in a medium which normally does not convey it. Coming from an architecture background, I learned to look at context and place as forms of inspiration, and to treat spaces as content. Now, I am trying to define what kinds of places and spaces and what I can do to them and with them. This endeavor is very much linked to how I perceive the world around me and what kinds of tools are at my disposal now that I am not building buildings. I do not respond to a site through inserting a model into it, so I have been studying how else to respond and to transform, to construct a new space without the use of architecture.