Edlingham, Northumberland UK. Series – TVRRIS.

(The tower appeared on the cover of my 1992 book Experiencing the Past – [Link] )

Archaeographic notes:

There emerged in eighteenth-century Europe a distinctively modern aesthetic of ruin, part of an antiquarian and romantic sensibility.

This series aims to question, reconfigure, reanimate the picturesque castle ruin in the terms of an archetype of the tower – TVRRIS.

Formal principles of structure and texture — height, skeletal architecture, perforated planes, exposed stairways, intramural rooms.

Affordances — observing overview, isolating, commanding, reaching, taking flight, falling.

Environment, milieu — vista, connections between land and sky, earthbound mists, soaring clouds.

Associations — Babel, prehistoric standing stones, palace, prison.