On seeing the workers lockers they were immediately reminiscent of cages. The clothing and personal objects they contained were a ghostly reminder of the workers. The physical effort of moving these ‘cages’ from the disused factory to the exhibition space became a symbolic act, made more significant as I became aware of the history of the site. I wanted to acknowledge the workers, particularly after finding a notice board identifying each of the workers’ and the duration of their service, some of them over forty-years. The installation is located below an elevated office through which an open window can be seen to frame nature, offering some hope or optimism. The spacing of the lockers creates a claustrophobic labyrinth which the viewer can enter and experience. There is a space contained within the centre of the work that is at once both alluring and inaccessible which contains an enlarged photograph of the view from the window in the office.      click here