Ryan Sotelo
Living Surfaces
I’ve realized that most of who I am has been recorded by the rooms I have inhabited with my personal belongings.
Our surroundings witness our existence through the physical, spatial, and emotional traces we leave behind. The surfaces of a room become the staging ground to archive the palimpsest of life placed onto it by people enacting their daily rituals. These archival surfaces hold mnemonic imprints of personal and collective memories. The architectural drawing becomes a registering surface to examine the living archive by creating a series of room documentation. Much like the mnemonic attributes of a marking, the drawing holds the same essence by interweaving accurate documentation of people's belongings and their recollections of the space. The living surfaces of architecture are a passive archive of our inhabitation.
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