Underground shelter for homeless women.

I am in Wolverhampton, in Bantock park with old friends from when I was about 17 / 18. I have got a grant from the arts council to make something, to build a building.

With my friends we enthusiastically start to dig a hole for the building, we are going to make an underground shelter for homeless women. I get the sense also that the shelter may be a place of spiritual growth, a monastery of sorts. It is a daring art project, only I haven’t told the arts council exactly what it is about....

We dig some holes for foundations, we come across blocked pipes swollen with water – we look at how we might burst them – “by lancing them maybe?”

At that point the news comes through that the funding has been suspended because we haven’t been completely honest about our intentions....