Conventionally, a function of most buildings is to differentiate what happens within from the world outside. But their usefulness and healthy maintenance depends on thresholds (windows, doors) that allow exchanges between outside and in, inside and out. Exchanges of vision, of people, of action. And of air. And of light. The light of the outside world illuminates the space within; and light inside can penetrate the outside’s darkness. Exchanges involve change. Change involves exchanges … of ideas, of understanding, of manifestation. Change is intrinsic to exchange.

When tomorrow becomes yesterday…

When blue sky thinking is clouded by an afterimage of inert grey…

An allegory:

A different kind of building… in a hospital room, doctors and nurses are evaluating, diagnosing, advising, testing, treating. The patient is finally alone with their thoughts, and they’re left feeling a lack of agency, rather lonely, despairing, and needing to regain a sense of control. But then they discover flowers in the room. The patient’s mood changes, lightens, with a new-found optimism. The flowers were there all along, but no one had really noticed them. How long will their colour and scent endure?

Tomorrow is the question…

Even when tomorrow becomes yesterday, the moment where the future unfolds remains. Tomorrow is still the question… unanswered…