Sat in the market square hoping to see the work on the big screen but missed it again, I fear this may well turn into a bit of an obsession, i'm dying to see how people react when it appears. 

This little obsession though turned into a topic of conversation.  I asked people on the benches next to me if they had seen it, granted some did looked at me like i had completely lost my marbles but some were more open to chat.  I quite naturally found a way through conversation to mediate the work DAD is doing in town does and  preparation for viewing the work.

I'm conscious of steering conversations, it is important to keep going back to Reside, but it is as eqaully important that i listen and hear what they are saying and why they are saying it. Also i am fascinated as i have always been in the lives and stories of other people. Stories the public that the work is intended for and is informed by share with me force be to remember my reading of the work is all ways influx, fluid, open to change.  

2 conversation of note: 

- Working on the ships all over the world, leaving and coming home was part of his life for a long time,   Saw an old crest that lived behind the bar in a pub where the now cinema is...he saw it in Japan, someone had pinched it! This was an obviously fond memory he had of being homesick. Home is a magnet, he said you always want to leave for a better life, but home cooking, freinds, the call of old dover pulls you back in. Talked about immigration. Talked about feeling displaced in the community you belong when been away and how sometimes the memory of a place, or the hopes you have for a future there doesn't match up 'reality'  This was all before he had seen the work. I asked him to think of the things we talked about when he went by it. I hope he does.

A slightly drunk man walks past but the chalking caught his eye, 'no-ones looking, there all hiding arn't they' i just said im not really sure what they are thinking, i followed him up and down the work as he considered what each one might be thinking and who they might be. He used his self as an example to explain to me what he meant,  we talked for 20 minutes about appearances, judgments, paranoia the difficulties of change and the hope of being able to protect others.

Was a really enjoyable and insightful conversation for both of us i think.