If you study the architecture of the workhouses and poorhouses the architecture itself created by Jeremy Bentham - the panopticon you uncover a vast complex system of surveillance and control embedded in the very bricks and mortar of their existence . The basis of school architecture and hospital architecture developed from this , seeing this the staff were bound not only by cultural thinking but also by a governmental control embedded in the very architecture . Young women from these places were also put in ships and sent across the seas to Australia to be brides for the convicts . Its hard to comprehend the stigma attached to unmarked mothers as recently as the 1950 s and 1960 s But when uncovered is a shocking history I was for many years artist in residence at the workhouse in southwall a museum the only in the uk which is part of a coalition of museums of social conscience and I worked there through its development into a museum , drawing out in plan the workhouse in string and pegs as part of Venice open when the architecture biennale was on and then on the shores of the beach in Australia where the women if they survived arrived . Being born in a salvation un married mothers home myself has been the fuel of much of my art, research and commitment to understanding architecture and medicine , a lifes quest to create a caring space , through discourse and understanding . The theory of spatial dynamics and architectural control is good to understand so you can create a counter culture of resistance , I guess I should feel well pleased I didnt end up in a septic tank , Prayers for all those poor little souls and their mothers Prayers for peace and healing for all that suffer and prayers for all who cause suffering
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 09:51:08 +0000
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