The work in this show was produced when I collaborated with two other students for eight weeks in a warehouse next to Wycombe Cane and Rush Works, making work that located itself in relationship to the fabric of the building.
'The work itself was anthropomorphic, made to take its own time, to live only a transitory existence, and to face disintegration through its own actions. Then, as now, the unexpected occurred quite often, as the machiines took on their own life and, at times, refused to cooperate . . .
'The ability of movement to activate a space, and its potential to transform that space into an arena where activity, emotion and time can be examined, is an idea that has interested me for some time. At present, I am making work that does not itself move, but instead operates like a film on pause, its movement frozen in between two possibilities: the event that has already happened and that which is yet to come.'
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