The Keeper of My Memories

Abstract

The Keeper of My Memories explores the imagined worlds created throughout my life to question whether childhood daydreaming can be harnessed through architectural narrative so that real and imaginary realms are bridged, sparking moments of reverie and nostalgia. The narrative is presented through three acts, and a series of imagined characters increasing in detail and scale as the story unfolds. Act I, The Installation, operates at the miniature scale of a doll’s house, transporting the viewer to an imagined realm. Act II explores an evolving domestic scene at 8–10 Lime Road, Bristol, England—my birthplace and childhood home. Act III sees the domestic scene shift to a mise-en-scène where the house is a character in the architectural fantasy. These narratives are woven into a story also sited at Lime Road. This house is never presented as a static piece of architecture but always evolving with its inhabitants.