Statement: Graeme Walker

We are tourists, in the House and in Cork and in The-House-in-Cork. We do not have a guide to show us the meaning of this place, so we are developing our own meanings using the materials that are to hand: the objects of The House. And in The House there are many unfamiliar objects which we have become preoccupied in becoming familiar and engaged with: the unopened post, the left toothbrushes. They are forming part of a new order; their meanings imbued with their designed purpose and subsequent use are transformed into objects reflective of our strange, disengaged context. In this they become strange to their owners who, when they walk in the door will be confronted with our totems, arrangements, taxonomy and systematic constructions; it will be the same familiar objects, but transported to an unfamiliar context: the context of strangers in their house.

What do our unguided tourist eyes see? We see everything as shape, colour, potential energy. Without the typical understanding of the objects we manipulate into these new forms - that of the everyday, generic sort - we can explore unconnectedly, developing ideas based on a more pure experience: original experience.

The churches, immigrants, expense, colour, sensory imputs all contribute to the work produced. The fact that we have access to these stranger's objects, are able to use them outside of their context as possessed artifacts enables us to translate what we experience directly, without emotional engagement to the objects, only to our position.