Dimensions: image: 697 x 495 mm
Copyright: © Stephen Buckley | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This untitled piece by Stephen Buckley shows two rectangles, almost floating, with a grid and some zig-zag patterns in this muted, warm tone. It feels like looking at architectural ruins...but soft? What catches your eye about it? Curator: Oh, those gentle, earthy tones! It's as though the building blocks of memory are dissolving before us. It evokes a half-remembered dreamscape, doesn't it? It asks us, "What does 'home' truly mean when all that remains are fragments?" Editor: I never thought of it like that! I was so focused on the shapes. Curator: Shapes are whispers, aren't they? It's the spaces between, the almost-there-ness of it all, where the real poem resides. What do you make of the white space? Editor: It feels like a breath. Maybe it represents what's lost? Curator: Precisely! It's absence given form. Beautiful, isn't it? A poignant dance between what is and what used to be.