The Cloister

Serena and Anna, two of the students who are helping make this project happen, sent me some photos today of the space we will be using. It's a beautiful mediaeval cloister now part of the university.

We are thinking and emailing each other about what we need to prepare the space. It's quite big, and at first rather daunting as we don't have a huge budget and there is very little time.

But I am reminding myself that this project is not about 'doing' and 'things' and 'stuff'. And really we are returning this space to something very close to its original purpose. The architecture was designed to enclose a sheltered space, for peace and contemplation.

Visually it has this beautiful rhythm of the portico going around it, which is quite wide, with flagstone floor. There are three incredibly tall narrow trees like exclamation marks!!! They go quite beyond the frame of this shot and reach right up into the sky. And the little sapling just coming into leaf. And there is this square of bright green grass. So we are thinking about how to work with this.