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So this was a short project with Dirk Lellau which looked at space through the medium of weather, and was restricted to our Uni campus on Marylebone Road.  I focused on the materiality of the windows and was interested in their control over the atmosphere of a volume, rather than what is beyond them. Of particular interest was the contrast in my experiences of the weather.

In my flat I am surrounded with windows and roof-lights, I hear the rain pounding the tiles, I am blinded by the sun as it sets, piercing dark storm clouds, I see the frost glistening early on a winter’s morning. As I step into the studio, I feel immediately restricted. I am allowed only a thin band window with which to experience the weather and a series of looming, filthy, frosted roof-lights which provide me with a sense 

of what exists beyond them. My whole experience of weather is reduced to light. A dull, pale, grey is cast over the rutted wall surface of a stair well.

This oppressive environment provides an intensified appreciation of these moments of the spectacular. A sudden burst of sunlight illuminates a discoloured roof-light with a warm glow. It comes alive with deep turquoise, orange and blue, where before there was only gray. The glass glistens like a fine slab of splendid marble. We are reminded that the weather exists when it is so easy to forget in these monotonous labyrinths.

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