A home is full of objects. How did they get there? Objects migrate from one room to the next, either by design or default. As I write, discarded batteries lie on a table next to glass beads and a nail file. Some or even most of the objects have migrated from other parts of the world, to settle like dust for an indefinite period of time.
My work attempts to observe the ‘infra-ordinary’ movement of objects in my home. These works are made in response to writing lists of remembered objects, categorised by different rooms, becoming an inventory of remembered objects, not necessarily significant objects but randomly remembered ‘things’ that came to mind whilst writing. In hindsight, I realised these lists read like prose and they became the starting point for making work. Listed ‘Things’, are photographed subsequently transferring and duplicating their existence onto paper. At this point the process doesn’t necessarily end.
This series of work became my contribution to a Dialogue project called ‘Semblance of Order’ exhibited at Rugby Museum and Art Gallery in 2022. Through discussion with Graham Chorlton one of the other artists in the exhibition, he recommended a book by George Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. 1997, Penguin Books. What a wonderful read, Perec offers a serendipitous strategy for making work.
