Brick Work
Part of the collective body of work entitled FORM, relating to memories of the street where I grew up and that shaped who I am. I made the Civic Chain to honour these memories, just as a mayor is bestowed a chain while representing a town or city’s residents. The names and places stamped on the brick shaped links are not a snapshot in time but a jumbled up construct of my memories through the years, of those buildings and people that meant something to me. The names are in the right positions on both sides of the ‘street’, but not necessarily at the same time. The one brass brick that represents our house, No.48, is actually from a piece of metal I used as part of my degree show, a satisfying amalgamation of my life from that time.
