In this frightening period of lockdown due to the pandemic, travel has become difficult, unsafe and restricted. The future bears uncertainty: if and when it is possible to travel to experience new places and revisit places from personal pasts is unknown. Places which once drew people in to experience their spaces are now 'indefinitely' and 'temporarily closed' with no certain opening date.

People are isolated, left with memories of those faraway places, with only photographs to recall them. Locked in dwellings, people long to be able to escape to a past before the lockdown, to places far away from here.

Residing in London, the dwelling curates spatial experiences from a recent voyage to India. Set both in real space and imaginary space, the project seeks to recreate those atmospheres and spatial conditions of the places remembered through memories. The following question arises: Can the dwelling become a ‘repository’ of curated spatial memories of places which can no longer be accessed? A way to re-experience those places within the space of the apartment?

The memories are rekindled, by manipulating scale, creating forced perspectives and the atmospheric phenomena of the places. However, they may become embellished, corrupted, reimagined; a labyrinth of memories.