The installation of my work went fairly smoothly, in hindsight. I made some decisions that seemed natural at the time though I would’ve completely forgotten about them had I not documented my thought process and physical progress within the space.

Here I am, pictured setting up my workstation for the week. I spent most of my time at the gallery soldering and testing these two oscillators; they gave me a lot of trouble. I had created a schedule for myself – finish soldering the oscillators on Wednesday, work on setting up the train sequencing on Thursday and Friday, stay late to finalise the looks on Friday evening. By Thursday daytime I was over-schedule and had not yet completed the oscillators, but managed to get one working well and one juuuust working enough to sound.

I altered my idea somewhat during the installation process, simplifying some aspects and altering the aesthetic choices slightly. It began as a project about early memories, but as I constructed it I realised that this had almost nothing to do with any of my own early memories – I never played with toy trains, and it didn’t take me back to my childhood at all. However, setting up my oscillators and making them work with the train felt like a liberating form of playtime that I hadn’t experienced for a while. Hence the adjustment of my concept to focus on childlike playing, casting off the shroud of adulthood to rekindle the curiosity and glee of my more diminutive years.