The work is the perpetual process of accumulation, and application, of a toolkit. A traveling apparatus for the artist.

The process takes cues from, and simultaneous draws links to, archetypal ‘lone wandering’ characters from disparate historical, cultural and mythological sources; and their ongoing references and translations throughout modern culture. The Ronin (a lone Samurai without a master), the lone gunslinger (often dubbed ‘The Man with No Name’), the Pilgrim, the Monk, the Nomad. Comparable codes (principles, Ways, rules) that these characters follow are required and applied to the role of the contemporary process. These rules are the product of an effective ‘tinkering’ to establish a personal domain within the environment; be that ‘Art’ as an environment, or any other that one occupies. The process is a product of an effective ‘tinkering’ within these established rules. Experimentation and practical problem solving in order to better function within these spaces.

Ritualistic repetition produces evolutionary traits: improvements and mistakes; experiments and tests that are both the prototype, and the finished article. It is the participation in a process of which the final outcome/goal is the process, and its artifacts.

Each accumulated apparatus is a diagram (a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure or workings of something) of processes (a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end). The assemblage stays within this process; It is simply the process paused at a certain stage. From the initial construction, to the consequent activity; there is no ultimate result displayed. The process is continual.

The process or action that the assemblage reveals is compelled to be contemplated for there is never an operation or conclusion to the action shown to the viewer, nor a chance for the viewer to physically utilise the objects themselves. The act is paused in a meditative state.

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