Mis-remembering

Marilyn Jones

12 October – 8 November

Here is an expansion on experimental work made during my RM Gallery 2024 Archive residency, along with a sample of writing from that time.

In my mind’s eye 

From the RM Gallery windows I see a landscape of roofs.  Walls of buildings lean in and crowd the view.  Hard angles are softened by the curved roof of Samoa House and the domed tower of the building that once housed St John Central Ambulance Station in Beresford Square.  Lines brush up against and lean toward each other, the horizon dips and dives.  

As the sun ‘moves’ overhead, facets of roof planes are exposed, and what has been hidden in shadow is revealed.  A changing landscape unfolds; lines intersect.  Edges of the architecture push up against each other, lines become indistinct in the shadow. 

Seen versus remembered   

My memory of what I thought I was looking at out the window.  It seemed an absolute truth in my memory, but the reality is completely different.  But does it matter for this exercise?  I want to remember the facets of the roofs glinting in the sunlight.  The angle of the sun changing the glints.  Light coming and going off the angles.  

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