The Tree; Friends Shadow box, 7:00am 23rd Dec... hungover but up at the crack of dawn!

Location of the childhood playground of my two best friends Hannah, Layla and I, where we used to stage many of our imaginary games. We mapped, created, explored and discovered the surrounding area, developing our "safe haven" into the world in which we imagined.

I 're-placed' memorabilia of my childhood and early teens in this "hidden" place, remebering the freedom and innocence, the fresh enthusiasm and wild imagery in our worldly naivety... our distanced hopes and dreams of what was to come.

These hopes and old dreams are now 'immortalised' within this frame that represents to me how different the past could have made our futures... not a bad thing, just different...