The Houses of the Astronomers is an exploration of various houses or dwellings as containers of imaginal space. The enclosures become places of encounter between the miniature and the vast, the enclosed and the open, exemplified in my work by the house and the night sky.  The ancient Chinese used to build their observatories on high towers in order to get closer to that which they were observing. I find this an endearing ‘absurdity’ which is typical of human endeavor, and not unrelated to the mountain-top observatories of today. As a result, these houses, and the activities within, can be said to be closer to the cosmos and the heavens than their own geographical surroundings.

This collapsing of physical space by the imagination and the mind demonstrates how such things as closeness, proximity and connection exist more in the way we see things than in any purely objective description of events. 

This interplay of the external/internal, objective/subjective underpins much of my work.