Ousden Hall Gardens:Vestigium

Experimental architectural history combined with personal memoir. What remains with me most vividly from Donald Preziosi’s visit to York was the intensity of his dissatisfaction with much art and architectural history and a conversation we had one day about art and trace that came to rest on relics. I recall in particular his wry remark that the clamour amongst art historians for a ‘return to the object’ was as if art were ‘something left behind at the lost property office’. I hope that this short piece—a sort of affective architectural history, perhaps -- about the sort of property that is always lost, but that never turns up at lost property offices -- might be for Donald something of a relic of his visit.