Prose Poems by Daniel Spoerri, 1959

Prose Poems is an artwork/installation by Daniel Spoerri that fixes everyday domestic objects and remnants into a composed “captured scene,” turning residue into narrative and making time, gesture, and memory readable through what remains. By relocating the table—an intimate site of daily life—into the gallery, the work reframes the ordinary as a structured record and suggests that meaning can be constructed from fragments rather than conventional representation. This reference influenced my approach to placeness as something shaped through emotional attachment, and it encouraged me to move beyond illustration toward installation as a method to materialise memory and tenderness—using familiar objects to build a psychogeographic map that can reimagine even rugged environments as intimate through emotion and recollection.