20 Slideshows

The first four sites in the work have all been places in which I have had a studio at one time or another. The first floor front room of number 96 became my studio when I left Camberwell School of Art, and I used it for three years at the cost of 30 shillings (£1.50) per week, including tea twice daily.

The appearance of a figure in the first slide was a cue, i.e. that where in the first three years or so a figure had tended to appear this would be taken to be an integral part of the site and an effort would be made to have a figure present in the same position each year. Effort is certainly required in this particular spot, since the road doesn't lead anywhere directly, and a longish wait is often necessary. Sometimes no one at all passes, and in 1983 we have to make do with a dog.

When a car is in the way I have to accept it for what it is, an intrusive car. I blamed the cars at first, but then they become the subject as the car is shifting stylistically quicker than the houses are.

One day the skateboard in 1976 and the milkman delivering bottles in 1981 will seem quaint and antiquarian features.