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The Dun Laoghaire baths, a ruined and bygone space creates a constellation of associations. Traces of the degraded space guard the memories of successive generations. Through digital interventions with images, themselves degraded, viewers experience a sense of spatial awareness and a sensation of an environment that no longer exists.

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"Ruins are buildings which have lost their function and have turned into instruments for measuring time."

― Roland Barthes

"The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language."
― Heinrich Heine

"But the landscape of devastation is still a landscape. There is beauty in ruins."
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

"There is, I find, something very evocative about ruins - particularly recent ones."
― Joel Knight

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The site of the baths is a place where the historical “layeredness” is particularly visible. The various temporal shifts can be manifested and sensed in and through the multiple physical and architectural layers that have existed in the same location since the early 1800s.

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