My washing machine stoped working couple of days ago, we had it for 15 years, it did a good job until now. We purchased it when Shaazia (my wife) was jobless and I was working part time. It was a tough period of time, and we purchased it from Littlewoods in monthly instalments after we moved into a new flat that didn't have one.

Last night, Shaazia and I discussed the need to purchase a new one, but in my previous life I used to work as an electronics and appliances technician, I had to try to fix it. Of course, the child, the artist, thought, "Hmm, this is a good excuse to use the "washing machine as an art piece" for the interim show at CSM, so I dropped a line in our uni group chat. The reaction was as expected with encouragements to "do it".

In the end, the technician Daniel fixed it.

But overnight, I became obsessed with the idea of creating something so much different than I ever made before for the interim show at CSM. I remembered reading some while back about someone who used a washing machine as a pinhole camera.

Researching it again, I found the work of Steven Pippin, who created an artwork titled “Laundromat-Locomotion Walking in Suit” in 1997. He transformed washing machines into cameras, capturing images from the inside. The concept revolves around replacing the tangible mass of clothing inside the machine with an ephemeral image projected onto the clothes. This projection occurs due to light reflecting off a suited figure of himself walking past the outside of the machine. The work pays homage to photographer Eadweard Muybridge, known for his studies on human and animal motion through sequential images.