Sharing Spaces-A personal exploration of the idea of 'sharing' through lived places - Episode 1 - Earliest recollections
I have been living in a few different types of living spaces. Though I vaguely remember living at a doctor's quarters in Gampola and at an apartment in New South Wales, Australia (both due to memorable events; the first is my eldest brother falling into a limestone pit and the latter because of myself falling from a staircase, ending up in my head between the wall and a flower pot. My solid memories of living space during my childhood were of a small single-storey house my parents rented in Kurunegala. It had an entrance porch, living, dining, kitchen, single washroom, two bedrooms and two courtyards, each opening into the living and dining; and it had a large garden where my two brothers and I used to hop around and stretch ourselves to our heart’s content. Our house was 'the' cricket ground for our friends in the neighbourhood. The garden was a usual space for me since it allowed me to free myself from everything else; a place where I found solitude; I ...