(Nov 04) 8 large scale digital photographs.

Photographs of packed lunches. Members of the public had prepared their lunches unaware that they would be invited to display what they had made. 

The Highgate maps assumed a certain vulnerability once they were removed from their intended context and placed on display. The lunchboxes project explores that naked vulnerability further by placing the personal on display. Packed lunches are intended as entirely functional objects and so they're often prepared hastily, without sentimentality and without self-consciousness. The vulnerability of these displayed lunchboxes derives from the relationship between the moment of their solidification as finished objects and our present-time position as viewers viewing that finished object. This temporal relationship - the present looking back to a completed moment in the past - exists in English as a grammatical category; a verbal tense with a fittingly nostalgic name: the present perfect. The large scale of the images exacerbates the sense of vulnerability by cementing each packed lunch into a factual statement of its conclusive finishedness.