This pattern reflects the work of the chronophotographer, whose deconstruction of events in time is ultimately followed by a reconstruction which makes the spatial sequence temporal once more (below).

The rest of the animated sample plays out a simple drama of disappearance and re-appearance. The abyss evoked through sound and motion is a figuring of the frailty of sight, hearing and memory. And the subsequent return of the image, spiralling outwards to the tune of 'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer' played in reverse, is once again a metaphor for the reclamation that defines this project.

Like the work of memory, this reclamation work is never done. Its iterative nature is graphically depicted in the trails left by these photographic phantoms, figures that might vanish without a trace if they didn't incessantly leave one.