ABSTRACT
The interior depicted speaks of occupation, not in terms of capturing life, but rather in terms of what preceded the vacating; and what we are afraid about deep down. Embedded within the construct are rituals of occupation and power relations between those who are occupying the space, as potently captured in Dobson's example. Stories of occupation are built upon things remaining from others' pasts they act as props in a new dialogue, become a new scenario emerging within the present circumstance. The internal occupation of oneself involves a sense-of-space; a spatiality of inner experience in the same way as we externally occupy a built space albeit the experience is different. When one's internal freedom is lost, as implied in the quote, an individual's fluidity of occupation of space across time and circumstance is controlled. Occupation of these spatial receptacles engenders emotional responses; the image acts as both an evocator and a repository of meaning as the viewer gazes and ventures.
