This installation displays many contrasts: inside/outside, private/public, hot/cold. The work is intended as a monument to ordinary people, but perhaps more specifically, to women. Women are vulnerable in their powerlessness against loss, and the impact of social and political events on their lives. This work also comments on the face that women show the outside world – despite all of these factors.

All of the objects in this installation are covered with rusted metal. The rust acts as a metaphor for transience, vulnerability and the fight against time. It also imbues the objects with an archaeological quality. The prominent role that old tins play in the work is a metaphor for preservation (the original function of a tin).

The technology used within the work, is not simply used to “contemporize” the piece. Its significance lies in the fact that it has its own historical place archaeologically. These contemporary issues and objects are set up in “archaeological time” in order to force an intense scrutiny of ourselves and contemporary technology – as with archaeological finds.