The Cabinet Particular photographs were taken within a Cardiff-based installation encompassing an assemblage of set design, furniture, costume, performance and photography created in response to the location of the piece in an early twentieth-century domestic basement.  In building/dressing the installation the artists aim to explore the physical and psychological of the location using the ideas of psycho-geography to find ways of reinterpreting it, not simply as geographical space but as a historical, mythological and imaginative space.  Once built they developed a female character based on an individual, partly real, partly imagined, who may have inhabited the building creating a sense of narrative, history and belonging for this individual to her environment. Looking at memories, change, absence and belonging the artists use the space and the character that inhabits it to create a dialogue of an ever changing environment directly linked to the history of the site, evoking a place of layers of different realities and different personal histories.  

Previous photography sessions undertaken with Kim Fielding saw the artists visit different locations within the time context pinpointed for the project, the Edwardian period 1901 - 1912. Using costume and a cast of male performers Oben publically promenaded whilst Roberts & Fielding captured the performance and location on camera. The various series of images naturally generated narratives about the female character portrayed.