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Plainwork (Writing)

Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design

The interior is vast. The telling of "interiority" is infinite. The Australian writer Gerald Murnane, in his book The Plains, writes "about" this infinity and about the impossibility of making a "work," in this instance a film, that would somehow show "vastness." Still, the impossible is possible, in all sorts of imaginative and subtle ways. The Plains is a generative book, both in its subject (the meaning of the plains) and in its relational reach toward other practices; in this regard, it has "infinite" potential in terms of our understanding, and our speaking and writing language, of what "interior" is, and how it can be expressed and taught.

Key Words: plains • writing • interiority • infinity • poetic • making • landscape

Space and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 2, 225-242 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1206331204273993


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