Timothy Webster

Architecture (MA)

Will You Stay A While Or Are You Just Passing Through

Snow On The Ground, Is It Winter In September

Big Cloud, White Horse, Rolling Over The Hill

The kite mirrors the relationship of care within the context of dementia that I have grown to understand, a careful interplay with a turbulent invisible force that must be mediated through an anchored connection one is determined to retain. The kite represents memories or loved ones, which are prevented from their imminent erasure through the holding of the kite line, freezing the memory in the sky. A kite flow individually can represent a moment of clarity in a loved ones, where for brief isolated moments the person you once knew returns fully formed. The assemblage then represents a cloud, the complicated collection of ever changing moods, memories and interactions which we must navigate while continuing on our lives alongside the disease.

About

During his final year Timothy Webster began developing a personal spatial practice which explores kite-making and flying as a social act of care, where the sky acts as a canvas on which to explore emotions and memories through spatial linguistic installations.

Contexts are created around these heavier-than-air crafts to bring people together to reflect, contemplate and fly.

The final year project is centred around dementia and its community of carers, providing a caring environment for those who live with and around the disease, while attempting to re-frame the disease’s stigmas within the popular imagination.

Timothy (b.Oxford, 1998) previously studied at Central Saint Martins and worked for Hayatsu Architects

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