Reclamation

6 x 9 in. book

72 pp.

2017

Reclamation is an essay based on a question of temporality: what happens to the meaning of the structures we build once they fall out of use and, abandoned, begin to cede to the forces of nature? The resulting book examines this question from three angles: first, through the lapsed monumentality of forgotten Olympic stadia; second, through the possibility of embracing entropy as a creative tool; and finally, by reinterpreting Jacques Lacan’s idea of “the real” as something that emerges through the gaps that nature opens in our failed human structures. The notion of “failure as fate” transforms our problem into the possibility of a new truth, a new way of looking at our relationship with the natural world.