It's been a while since Ben visited the studio and set me thinking about extending works beyond what, to me, seems their natural conclusion. If I am honest, it is not news to me that I move on to the next piece of work readily and often without giving enough thought to whether the previous piece is exhausted. This is partly due to my character - easily distracted to a different, glossy idea and also due to being excited to new opportunities and potential which seems easier than really getting further under the skin of a work I have already spent considerable time with. It is time to change that and as a result, I have vowed to re-visit the work Twinning Households, to re-look at the data and begin to draw out additional and alternative views of the project.
Twinning Households was a short residency of eight days in a housing estate in Cambridge as part of the project Crop Marks. Through every estate household's door, I posted a specially designed postcard that had a pair of randomly chosen addresses on, asking the recipients to write a message to their neighbour and post the card into postboxes located around the estate. I acted a postie, collecting and delivering three and sometimes four times a day. Posted here is the 'map' of collection and deliveries from the project - it evidences the amazing number of links and communications that were made , some of which resulted in face to face meetings and ongoing social engagement between residents that had previously not met each other.
