The Kindertoy series started in response to a fellow artist writing a paper on artists who had made work informed by notions of collecting and collections in some way. Knowing a previous piece ‘Palimpsest’ she asked if she could interview me about it and during the interview noticed that I had a fair few bits of Kindertoy lying around my studio. I do not collect them but over the years have amassed many and more often than not they have ended up in pieces, reflecting the modularity of their construction. Not having ever seen them as objects to work from the discussion in the interview allowed me to see them as a potential source for ideas. They are objects made in multiple, manufactured & repetitive in form yet are easily manipulated and transformed. Working with fragments of these toys has opened up many other ideas of working with ‘lost‘ objects, the misplacement of which gives rise to a vast potential of new meanings and associations.