Buildings Worth Shrinking
Two domes, sixteen months apart: one in glass over an Istanbul atrium, one in stone in a Kildare garden.
4 catches
Made from 4 catches, January 2025 to June 2026.
Somewhere between them a habit takes shape, photographing buildings not as scenery but as objects, the way a modeller studies a kit before opening the box.
Down to street scale
The lens drops to things at hand height: a vintage coffee roaster inside a Dublin shop [1], a timber-framed building with a clock and planters in a public square [2], a flower stand on a city sidewalk [3]. These are the parts a diorama lives or dies on, the clutter that makes a scene look inhabited.
[1]
A vintage coffee roasting machine in a shop interior. Dublin
[2]
A timber-framed building with a clock and outdoor planters in a public space Dublin, Kildare
[3]
A flower stand on a city sidewalk in front of a shop Dublin
Then a saved article names it
In Islington the story turns explicit with a piece on cave playgrounds, structures that "mimic prehistoric shelters, offering not just fun but a sensory experience" [4]. Buildings, it argues, are things to climb inside, which is what every catch here had been circling.
[4]
Islington
The story runs from a dome big enough to hold a garden to a cave small enough for a child. Start to finish, it is one subject: built forms caught at the scale of the body, as if waiting to be rebuilt small.