Sites of Desire involved the installation of hyperreal objects in dilapidated spaces, creating strong visual contrasts, kinds of visual echoes where time becomes dislocated. The project explored the subtle subversion of the safe psychological space of the interior, the domestic interior and the work environment, and its assumed sense of order.
Reclaimed furniture stand in for the body, underlining the slow process of decay as nature eats away at the evidence of human effort. Office chairs stand in for the jobs that have vanished and the sense of self that seemed to go with them. This smaller scale of working is a means to approach the epic subject of post-industrial decline and its traumatic impact on people and the many homes that became broken.