This body of collages were made in an enormously stimulating and exciting time. 2016 was the year after the birth of my first child; a year of redefining and chaotic joy, underpinned by a new routine and structure. I was invited by the ANU School of Art and Design to use their printing workshop and talk with the students in the Print Media Department about their work. Through conversations with the students I began to revisit ideas of colour, pattern, positive and negative space and how these elements might work together in a restricted compositional set of rules. I made a series of small works on paper where I was working in condensed amounts of time, on the dining table (as the titles reveal) amidst the pleasure and bedlam of my new life. I wanted the shapes, colours and patterns to reflect this energy but also to rigorously investigate the compositional format I was working in.