For three weeks, in May 2021, I have been working on an evolving series of works responding to the project space and occurrences linked to the creative process. This experimental project aims to embrace a place as readymade for engagement and activation, over time. The work is an invitation for the audience to join an art-work in development and connect with an attitude of curiosity and poetic transformation, acknowledging a place and the possibilities of creation through care, attention and imagination.

I started the project with letting go of pre-defined plans to be able to meet this particular place and inhabit it. Then, the  creative process kicked in with finding objects left by previous artists: on the floor, a Barbie bank note asking to play for money and in the garage a pair of plastic feet. I then started mapping the movements of objects with tape and charcoal and drawing with strings, travelling through the points of anchorage of the place. This was a way of activating the place and conversing with the history, vastness and the authority of the building. The process evolved, forming a moving installation, by keeping an open mindset to what is not predictable, responding to creative impulses and acting with attention. Objects found in the street made their way through the work. When people visited the space, the experience became participative and the work an act of co-creation. Eventually digital images and analogue drawings started speaking a similar language, forming a whole.

Photograph credit: Document Photography day 18 of the project