As a response to a building as a structure, the reconstruction as a constant play between material and placement, the workmen become actors in a theatre of form, their constancy resulting in the gradual absence of material, the clearing of form, to leave a shell, a polished, strong, held space, which contains all and yet presents only the essential aspects of a space. Their final achievement is to remove from the space the dimension of time, hinted at only by a few remaining original features, window frames and brick work, like a history bursting from a seam, a hidden trajectory concealed within the walls. One sees in these walls a perceived material solidity in the past and fickleness in the present, and one wonders what economic growth implies, in the long term, of viability, of durability, of material and economy. Is this homogenising of the past a confirmation of the sterilisation of the present? Despite, or in spite of, such lamenting, the building material, the fabric of this façade; the store of laminate flooring , the stack of MDF board, a set of nesting plastic buckets, a blue tarpaulin over a web of scaffolding and the light from a variety of strip bulbs, all work towards creating a constantly shifting situation of which one is relentlessly intrigued. The formation of this facile architecture, this reflection of a facile society, a facile achievement, is based on a wealth of visual idiosyncrasies, of fleeting opportunities, reflections, echoes and accidental compositions.
Capturing the very swiftness of these moments has become the basis for the work, the articulation of each space is futile whilst they constantly shift, the articulation of this failure to comprehend the properties of the space has become subject. The cameras ability to capture, literally, the swiftness of things, is supported by the papers ability to create a relation between image and material, the compartmentalisation yet perceived homogenisation is responded to with variants of a similar form; collage, pages, booklets, photocopies, a series of drawings and a series of texts.
The attempt to articulate this space has become an articulation of the impossibility of such an articulation, the approaching of a situation in constant flux defies, or confounds sense, and what method one uses to broach the difficulty of the situation becomes the articulation of the situation itself. In presenting a multi-faceted work that runs parallel to itself one is highlighting the ill placed dichotomy between stability and flux, and draws attention to the gaps inherent to phenomena.
