In the early 1970s, the artist Gordon Matta-Clark discovered that the City of New York occasionally auctioned off tiny and often inaccessible plots of land, created by the exigencies of urban development. Fascinated by these improbable spaces, he bought fifteen of them, describing the action as converting a space into a state of mind.

I was gifted a Come Hell or High Water metallic plaque by Harriet Fink. I decided that this would be a way to claim the Limehouse foreshore, which has anomalous ownership and which we had used for CHOHW, as a place in which to ‘convert a space into a state of mind.’ We held a ceremony on the summer solstice to celebrate the installation of this plaque, which remains in place, proclaiming a form of visionary ownership.