We feel that the ‘Challenger’ disaster was a significant historical event for our generation.
Children freely explore notions of life and death through play and through story telling (how many stories written by children end with ‘and then I died’?). It is in adult life that we grow more reticent about death and destruction. So when the space shuttle Challenger blew up in front of the children of the world’s eyes, it was perhaps the adult world that was more shocked than the kids.
Many of our past works have been concerned with deconstruction: analysing the matter of an object through the deconstitution of its original shape and subsequent reconstitution into a different form. We are interested in Lego because it is an analogue of the modern house brick: stackable and able to be tessellated. The Lego brick, unlike its architectural counter-part has the element of changeability and movement integral within its design.
Thus, we are able to depict the manifestation of the space-age integral accident using Lego. Working with the temporal qualities of Lego we are able to build the unbuilt.