In Janet Frame's autobiography she describes the railway houses and her family home of 'Willowglen' that she lived in as a child. This led me to explore my own childhood residences, in particular the blocks of group housing projects in one of the new economic zones. These houses were the first vestiges of modernist urban architecture (built in groups of twelve or fourteen among lupines, wind twisted trees, sand hills and expansive skies) at a time when the 'King' gyrated his pelvis and Charlton Heston threw down tablets of stone in righteous anger....nothing changes. Years later they sprawled into suburbs and disappeared into cross leases.

Jon Tootill - April 2003