This thesis began on the island of Inujima, Japan where an understanding of place and a collision of perspectives was pursued.

A camera obscura was constructed to view/draw the perspective of looking to where one was going and then to turn around and look back at where one came from…in the place of intention, a threshold…a corridor and a stair.

As these perspectives were drawn on the page, overlaps occurred. These overlaps removed the place where I stood, where the camera obscura was. In the act of redrawing these places of intention in time, as one, space changed and time became fluid.

The movement through ‘now’ became a progression of always being present. When one looks forward to and progresses, at the point of reaching one’s intention, a looking back occurs…only to realize that where one came from is no longer there, its place has shifted.

Master of Architecture Thesis (excerpts) | Rhode Island School of Design | 2009