The first imagining of this project took place during a residency at Denbigh Mental Health hospital. The second saw me revisiting the project and looking at the things we do to get us through the lonesome parts of life which might seem repetative or unproductive.  The original work saw me in a bedroom at Denbigh hospital building a tower to the window using unsuitably weak fabric squares. Each time to tower fell the character in the video would line up the squares, count them and begin again. The work was also suplimented by a series of drawings. The pieces you see here came about from a feeling that the work was too interesting to be concluded. I created a series of small boxed works which looked at the various states of tower building. Times when it seemed to be working and others when it had fallen. I also looked at the drawings again and had some etched onto the slate which was customary of the Welsh hospital rooves. The pieces look at how we all make efforts to get along in our respective cells. Sometimes our efforts may seem sucessful at other futile. Despite the ups and downs we still try to find our own way to remain productive even if the materials we find ourselves with are unsubstantle. 

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Beth Barlow