Paul Ring

'Later Bedroom' is a free-standing, site-specific, constructed drawing, formed of concrete and timber. The work abstracts the architectural delineations and relief of the later bedroom's internal elevations as demarcations of absent heritage, into an interpretative, single depiction. The work is a spatial biography of the room's condition as an erased, delineated assemblage, purged of material heritage but imbued with the essence of absent material culture, into a reconstituted reality, to be read in parallel to the space it depicts. The constructed drawing is an interpretative portrayal of how space remains untold, or can be read, re-read and retold through an abstracted representation. It emphasises the importance of interpreting intangible qualities such as aura, essence, and memory that persist within incomplete or absent heritage. It offers a nuanced understanding of heritage, where absence is not perceived as loss, but as a heightened phenomenological experience of place, through an intentionally distorted reproduction.