The idea for Fencing: repairs and maintenance arose when the opportunity of doing a projectspace project coincided with my having completed construction of a fence around my home.

 

The leftover pile of palings and sticks became source material for translating the notion of fence to Articulate.

The sticks and palings became tools for defining, marking and also dividing the space.

 

They also became a form of large scale notation.

I moved them from one end of the space to the other in an evolving series of installations, where one idea flowed on from the one preceding it.

Whilst appearing functional, the arrangement of the sticks, over time, began to take on metaphoric meanings in relation to the marking dividing and

barricading. For each progression, I found a new title: 1. Landing 2. River of Styx, 3.

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Opposite sides of the fence, and so on.

The overriding title, Fencing: repairs and maintenance, held a clue to the functional aspect of addressing the everyday management of life and its material substance within the architectural or urban framework within which

one finds oneself.

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However, the open-ended site of the project space (compared to that of home and actual fence) becomes a container for expanding the notion of the mundane through the lens of the poetic. It allows

that moment where the real (mundane) and the poetic hyphenate, see sawing from one to the other.