Kitchen sink drama, the concept

As a child you would always find me rooting around junk shops and derelict buildings looking for what i thought of as treasure. My dad was a great influence on me, and as a child would always bring me back junk furniture and things, so as far back as I can remember we would be scouring skips and junk shops for, well anything that caught our eyes. My dad would tell me we were going on a treasure hunt! And this was generally a car-boot sale or some dilapidated building, but it was all treasure to me.

Growing up in the midlands to a working class background where it was so grey, seems to have promoted my own idea of projecting false color in to my photographic works, and throughout my child hood I was constantly collecting images that are still stored in my mind. Senses and feeling that often emerge at the strangest of times

Producing these windows at ROKIT has given me a perfect way of releasing these ideas and images that other wise would not become  installations. I am constantly sourcing props from every where that I use in my photographic shoot and my installations.

Many of the ideas for the installations come directly from growing up and the view of being a child. Almost what i would see but not understand, the way adults would behave with no rhyme or reasoning.

These feeling and images stuck in my head, and until the last few years lay dormant and unexplainable. Often in my fashion photographic work i would explore these ideas but it was when i began also doing installation works in my spare time that i found often the way you confine the idea to a 3D set that these early ideas had more life to them. Like a fly on the wall experience. They were life size and physically there.

Kitchen sink drama is the first live show we have produced on such a scale, and was extremely personal to my back ground and growing up. The love and hate, happiness and sadness of childhood, where what ever was happening there was always a sense of hidden truths around the overloaded emotions, bright colors and patterned surfaces.

Many of the props and furniture have a relevance to my ideas, and all though i will collect articles indiscrimatly, there's a certain style that fits around the whole idea of what i am creating. Props sit in my work shop for years just waiting to be brought back to life and have there debut in a installation show.

For these shows were not working with a script. We not trying to produce a broadway production. Were not working with words we are working with vision. What's important is what is not spoken about, its really about the observation of a simple idea thats quite mundane.

The idea of repetition fascinates me in this production, and many of the window installations we are doing. The same movement again and again, like many of life's repetitious bordie situations.

Kitchen sink drama. Concept produced 

                      and direction           :                              CHRISTOPHER SIMS

Assistant producer                       :                              VLADIMIR JANSKY

Styling, casting and  production:                               EMMA RICE

Assistant stylist and production:                               MANIE

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