The series of photographs Cardboard Boxes and Tables and Chairs are of sculptures which have been created for the purpose of being photographed. Rooms have been emptied; carpets lifted, furniture taken out and these temporary sculptures created. The rooms and the objects have been carefully selected for their aesthetics, there is often a white square reoccurring within the work.
Cardboard Boxes is a series of photographs which at first glance depicts a tower of cardboard boxes in a state of collapse. On closer inspection it becomes obvious that the sequence of events are not actually contiguous. As with the Suspicious Circumstances series of work the police forensic formula to obtain a photograph which would stand up as evidence in law – a ‘truthful’ record has been used. However the scene is flawed, the objective truthful record is questioned.
Arlene Burnett 