Shacks

The Shacks were an early exploration into pictures from memory. They're closer to a perceived reality than later series, because the chief interest lay in whether a reconstruction of long-gone image matter – treehouses that have long since fallen in ruin, overgrown with bramble and giant hogsweed – from memory alone was possible in the first place. Instead of going sideways and moving from one space another, constructing and connecting links in the process; here, the painter's eye revolves around the same location in sprawling circles – an exercise in cartography.