Carry me along oh road – One on the road forever carrying one’s load. In Roadwork I undertake a subjective journey through the streets of various cities carrying a road-object on my back. A journey paradoxically spent endlessly carrying the “baggage” of the road of life that we wander.

In this work I have made Language, repetition and the appearance of transience my ‘home’. As such Roadwork might serve as a metaphor for the role of the artist; a nomadic subject who needs to keep a certain critical distance between herself and the pastures she is feeding from.

Roadwork the installation consists of:

• A road for one traveller rolled up in its wooden case
• Carry me along oh road a video projection of the carrying of the road in London. Duration 9 minutes.
• An altered road sign Exhibited in October 1996 in ‘City Limits’ at Staffordshire university gallery, Stoke on Trent. also included in ‘Engendering the city’ by Marsha Maskimmon, Nexus publishers.

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