as with a lot of my installations, despite the long run-up period of researching, at the time of installing, it is a live event. The time taken to chose and cut the ash, the time taken making the drawings, the time taken working with others to collect information, all inform decisions made during the installation, but it also throws up new challenges. Possibly the biggest unknown in this case was the lighting and throwing the shadows on the wall. There was a large degree of serendipity in this process, similar to that experienced while walking and casting shadows on the drawings.
In the same way that preparing for the installation had helped inform decisions, the activity of hanging and weaving work into the installations was an opportunity to think through how to further engage people with it over the coming days and weeks. This backward and forward looking aspect of the activity is an important aspect for me.
