Flat Pack House

I'm a scavenger, I love finding things and my artwork is instigated by what I find. Sometimes something inspires and dictates a piece right from the start, as well as the beach another of my regular haunts are charity shops, I delight in rifling through and being able to reuse other peoples cast offs. So imagine how thrilled I was today to find not just one, but two, flat pack cardboard dolls houses and a real bargain at £5 for the two, less than half the full price of one.

I think they have real potential as either research & development or the starting point of my piece, the idea for which centres around over surveillance, spying and monitoring, as a result of mobile phone apps, Life Lines, Door Entry systems, virtual assistants, smart home devices etc... are we spying or being spied on?
I also love the chequered floor, a reference to Duchamp and they will lend themselves to papier mache and/or collage, can't wait to get started, now I have a starting point.