The Architecture of Echoes

We often speak of buildings as if they were static, frozen in the mortar and stone of their inception. Yet, if you sit long enough in the shadow of a wall, you begin to realize that structures are merely containers for the light that strikes them. They are vessels, constantly being filled and emptied by the passing of the sun. There is a quiet, rhythmic conversation happening between the rigid geometry of our making and the fluid, unpredictable nature of the day. We walk past these corners every morning, blind to the way a simple shadow can rewrite the history of a brick, or how a reflection can turn a solid foundation into something as fragile as a ripple on a pond. We build to keep the world out, but in doing so, we create new surfaces for the world to dance upon. If the walls could speak, would they tell us of the people who leaned against them, or of the light that finally taught them how to bend?

Stephanie Gillis has captured this dialogue in her image titled Castle on the Water. She has found a way to let the stone breathe, turning a quiet urban corner into a place of fluid mystery. Does the water hold the building, or is the building simply dreaming of the river?