I went to a talk at Cambridge Visual Culture by Dr Kimberly Foster ‘Material Acts of Thinking and Learning Pedagogical Art Objects and Touching the Art Museum’ It brought to mind some previous work that I made quite a few years ago when I spent some time in the Sainsbury Centre Art Gallery and Museum. I was interested in the way the spaces around the exhibits became important to me. I often become over whelmed by these spaces and Kimberly voiced this feeling in her research blog when she said “I started to blank areas out really simply with a felt disc, it was like a moment of saying shhhh to the surrounding opulence, significance, history, meaning. In that moment of observation I wanted to blur my focus slightly to create a different focus” I started to notice how the objects extend beyond themselves into the surrounding spaces and on a subjective level become as important as the object on display.