In all, it is as if Mr. Fischer had discovered a space within a space and it were, literally, a twilight zone.
He captures the solitary sense of being the last one awake in a sleeping house and the peacefulness that comes with discovering a restful space of one's own (even if that space isn't found in the classic places: the well-appointed bedroom, as in "Goodnight Moon," or at the tail end of a strange dream, as in Sendak's "In the Night Kitchen").
"We discovered a domestic space, so we took that as our starting point".
Entering through a doorway with muslin curtains, you discover a loft space divided in half by shelves that display small, enticingly lighted objects freshly plucked from the tabacs, farmacias and alimentaris of somewhere else — all the odd things you might stare at as a displaced tourist.
This week's house was looking pretty good, as far as investments go, until they discovered a crawl space and set out to explore it.
When students try to explain their attachment to certain volumes, they get stuck, in part because their reading experience is inextricable from powerful memories of discovering a secret new world, a space they explored in intensely private moments.
Composers and painters alike were discovering a new sense of space: in the same way that the van Eycks' Lamb of God shines amid a lush, open landscape, the fixed melodies of Dufay and Ockeghem float through an ever-shifting polyphonic texture.
Stepping in from Columbus Avenue is like discovering a crack in the space-time continuum: suddenly, candelabra are twinkling, the wallpaper is sumptuous, the chairs wide-hipped and warm.
After Zabludowicz discovered an office space in pre-demolition limbo, where the previous company had already vacated the space but there were still a few weeks before the space would be demolished, the curator made a last-minute decision to throw together a residency in this very unlikely setting.
When I first summed up the courage to approach a venue for my work – in this case a hotel – I discovered an abandoned space there and ended up establishing a full-blown gallery.
