Annotation as seeing

- [ ] As interior designers, one of the main issues is that spaces are very immediate encounters.

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- [x] I see annotation as a encompassing scaffold to my practice work, visible during the construction of my projects, totally removed on completion

- [x] The nature of my annotative practice can be likened to a building scaffold, one that is always present and necessary during construction but is completely removed without a trace and leaves behind only the spatial quality and intent

- [x] It allows me to move through projects effectively as thoughtfully as a conduit between drawings, models, people, material, intention, site and space

- [x] It is also integral in my ability to work in places with vastly different construction methodologies, source material and availability of trades and craft

- [ ] Caveat / catch here

- [x] This way of working only really works if you have a small practice like mine and you are are involved in a complete process. Meet the client, visit the site, define the design brief, sell the proposal, detail the design, supervise the construction,

- [x] Each project is a significant investment of time and the approach is a very craftsman like. We form a bond with our collaborators and clients that is more like partnership or co-investor rather than providing a service to a client.

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- [ ] Quality of space has a very direct impact.

- [ ] I started to trace spaces in layers of existing lines with new lines and the outline of space became really important when I examined a space.

- [ ] Materials have outlines, practical side is the cut of the material, poetic side is the placement of those cuts

- [ ] These lines then become connected and related across the space to define and detail the spaces

- [ ] So there is something here that I may unpack further

- [ ] And part of it informs my title again and at this point I'm calling it making visible:

Habit < Sensibility < Immersion < Inhabitation > Seeing > Iterating > Critical

Immediacy of spatial encounter - Direct impact of quality of space

Annotated sensibility of space

Annotated self in space - ability to see space

Spatial outlines - Rational encounters

Practice of making visible / making sensible