Stone Tape Theory, 2018
During my time spent at the House Conspiracy residency in Brisbane’s West End I became fascinated by the the lingering stain of the past in this rapidly developing suburb.
Experiencing heavy development and continuous gentrification West End is in a continuous state of growth and decay. As an outsider, disconnected, I was free to observe present day human and animal interactions within the urban landscape. Many sites I visited and captured in photographs have seen multiple transformations throughout the last century. Empty lots, construction sites, new multi story housing and old abandoned queenslanders arose as rich subject matter.
Wandering the streets of the suburb i delved into the concept that residual energy from these interactions can become built up in the landscape, an idea presented in the paranormal theory Stone Tape; the idea that mental, physical, emotional and/or traumatic impressions from past human or animal activity can become imprinted onto an entity, object or building and locked forever into a place to be later replayed on a continuous loop, a ‘haunting’, despite continuous change and development of the location. - Adrienne Kenafake 2018
