From memory to desks….
To accompany last weekends performance and the general concern with desks, I have had over the past year, I have be working on an exercise I set my self a couple of months ago. I have been collecting photographs of myself sitting at other peoples desks. 'Where I work I don't have a desk". This work supports my ideas surrounding the power of owning a desk, its reflection of the human condition, its daily changing association to success, money, global issues, the blurring of art and life, processes, day jobs, always being between to things rather than being fully in one, and the history of the desk. Again, what could be perceived as a 'naughty' exercise, these photographs are taken without the desk owner knowing.
They are all taken using the self timer button and I only sit for a maximum of 30 seconds at each desk. I have tried to keep the pose consistent, but it is still very much a working idea.
The images shown were mainly taken at the college I work at, late one Thursday evening after everyone had left.
