 |
Sarah Walsh is a native Brocktonian and aspiring cultural historian. In her work - as an undergraduate at Boston University and presently at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies - Sarah seeks to uncover the personal histories of "built environments," from individual structures to entire cities. Placing a particular emphasis on what happens to a designed space after it is given over by it creators to those who will use it, she seeks to trace the flow and accumulation of cultural meaning and memory around specific structures and locations through their representation in visual and creative media. Sarah's studies are inextricably linked to her childhood in Brockton, much of which was spent playing in buildings that were either physically or culturally abandoned. Hence her chief interest is in the bittersweet process by which a once-significant structure loses its meaning, its identity becoming sufficiently lost or unclear to allow for structure's destruction - or reinvention. |
DAN TRASK 