there is something about the remoteness of communication, a way of blind working that fills the space between us with other layers, it is a curious way of working. In my project with Our Lady of Lourdes this distance emanated in an exploration of interpretation, a guessing game, things not quite heard or heard differently became instructions for drawing, a game of Chinese Whispers – where the space between giver and receiver became a creative space for interpretation and invoked the evolution of an idea through corruption of the original signal.

At Killard House we have all kinds of ways of seeing each other, phones, iPads, webcam and whiteboard, we can hear each other on speakers and in phone. There is still the physical distance and still a remoteness and still the way of working blind. I can see what I’m being shown, the students can see what they are being shown; there is a lot more space out there which remains obscure, an opacity, this is a presence.