The Way Things Don’t

Collaboration with Alex Schady

Five Years Gallery, London, 2002

The image of a domestic bedroom scene is drawn directly on the gallery wall by pencil, the ‘walls’ in the drawing are marked, tearing through the real walls back to the building beneath, and light shines in through its holes. On the bed of the drawing is a spill tracing made of wool, and in front of the entire piece on the floor are two large bags, full, as if ready to go somewhere. Here surface becomes an insistent, unsettling third party between image and viewer, and a strange dialogue begins between the Dionysian principle of chaos, dream and intoxication and the Apollonian principle of order and form giving. — Tom Lacie