Kuhn reimagines a love relationship referenced in the extensive Schindler archives to create a dreamscape of portraiture, still life and landscape of an unnamed protagonist dwelling within the home and courtyard of Schindlers iconic Kings Road house. Solarization offered the perfect photographic tool for Kuhn to cross time and space while honoring the process of the Surrealists which was innovated at the time the house was built. Schindler and Kuhn both see and celebrate moments when light is its own architecture. 

In this conversation, Mona Kuhn discusses, among other things:

Images as semantics

Sensory inspiration

Embracing the unknown

Bringing architecture to light

The courage to be yourself

Learning to walk again

Creating visual poetry

Reaching critical mass

Editing to bbe true to your story

New ways of exhibiting

Wunder!

Referenced in the episode

Mona Kuhn Kings Road installation shots 

Time and Space - Steidl Interview with Mona Kuhn 

MAK center of Art and Architecture 

835 Kings Road at AD&A at UC Santa Barbara 

The Gift - Lewis Hyde

The Age of Light - Whitney Scharer

UNESCO World Heritage Site” Hollyhock House

Capture Photo Festival in Vancouver 

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