A ‘project space’ project at Articulate project space
The idea for Fencing: repairs and maintenance arose when the opportunity of doing a ‘project space project’ coincided with my having not long 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 took on the form of large scale notation as I moved them from one end of the space to the other in an evolving series of installations. Each installation flowed on from the one preceding it.

Whilst appearing functional, the arrangement of the sticks began, over time, to take on metaphoric meanings in relation to the marking, dividing and
barricading. For each installation, I found a new title:

1. Landing 2. River of Styx, 3.Opposite
sides of the fence, and so on.

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Each was listed on a chalkboard as the installation was
completed, in the manner of ticking off on a work sheet, tasks performed. The title, Fencing: repairs and maintenance, held a clue to the functional aspect of fence, addressing the everyday management of life and its material substance. ​

The project space, in contrast to the site of home and actual fence, became a container for expanding the notion of the mundane through the lens of the poetic. It allowed that moment where the real (mundane) and the poetic hyphenated, see sawing from one to the other.