In my long-term project ‘Talking With Vikings’, I am dealing with language, investigating the similarities that I find with my Norwegian dialect and the English Black Country speech. The initial part of this work was an exhibition called ‘Shadows’, at the Light-House Gallery, Wolverhampton where I made a site-specific sound installation bringing these two dialects together. The installation created a space where the viewer could examine the play and rhythms in the recorded dialogues. The next phase of the project is the Clent Expedition which will seek to build a multi dimensional and in-depth topographical representation of the area, its people and its history.

Language and thought is that which carries the idea and the culture and traverses the boundaries between. It is that which makes sense of our being as phenomena or meaningful events rather than isolated entities. Language and other transferable skills are not just academic, it is carried on by individuals but is beyond the individual and it has a future and a past. The matrix-like, fluid way of working and thinking is apparent in my earlier work that sees a transference from one object to another object to create a link between them, which points out their relationship as phenomena rather than separate entities or individuals.