Memory of place

The project was inspired by the plan of the 14th century monastery church of the former Cistercian abbey in Rudy (Poland)

Imprints - traces left on the grass after a folded tent or a demolished building are a visual record of the history of a given place. I am interested in the trace of what comes immediately after, it is the result of a change where we can still clearly see the "scar" after the disappearance of a given object. Knowing the place, we know exactly what was hidden behind the reflection of the trace. Without knowing it, we can only attempt a visual retrospection. The demolished building structure is a matrix and the remains on the grass become its graphic print. In my project "Memory of Place", as a graphic designer, I am most interested in these prints - traces, scars. Using photos taken from a drone, I look for interesting places where abrasions, depressions and scarring tell me its story. In the presented work, I was inspired by the plan of the 14th century monastery church of the former Cistercian abbey in Rudy. The implementation is an image of the trace seen from a bird's eye view that would remain of the building if it was demolished. I tried to recreate its shape using nature's tools.