For some time I had grown plants on the second level of the Leith building I worked in, and often I would carry the plants up in the small lift. While making this short journey from one floor to another, I noticed how strange it was just a few plants transformed the small sterile enclosed space. As the lift moved the plants reacted with the foliage moving and vibrating, vibrations that I could hardly sense were amplified in the foliage of the plants. In all it was even stranger than the usually empty space of the lift.

From here I decided to experiment with this work (LIFT) by filling almost the entire space with Bromeliad plants. With only enough space for one person to ride in the lift at a time, the experience was individualized, the audience was forced to take the journey alone, with the plants.

With no escape from the small, crowded enclosed space, this was actually quite threatening, the plants appeared to come to life, quivering, they appeared to grow and fill the space further as the lift traveled up or down.

The work followed on from the Plant room work.