For his work Dan Clark hoped to create a sense of mystery in the viewer by creating the aftermath of an unusual and unseen event at the site. However he wanted it to be non-linear; not an easily solved puzzle that investigation into the 'trace' could solve or explain away.

Clark placed an old trunk on the shingle at the edge of the river and installed it in such a way that clothes were spilling from it in a haphazard way, suggesting the trunk had been lost or abandoned in this space. This piece made use of what the artist calls 'universal presumed filmic language'; in other words it played on situations that have been stereotyped in people's minds through the culture around us. Therefore despite the improbability of the setting, the trunk recalled notions of trunks washed up on desert islands after a shipwreck, stories of pirate treasure and tales of wild adventure. The trunk was successfully imbued with a mysterious past narrative, relative in some ways (in the proximity of water) but in other ways alien to the time and place it was placed in.

Dan Clark's work was exhibited in the space from Friday 19^th - Friday 26^th June 2009. Please click on Artists' Profiles for  more information about him and his practice.