Hanaa Malallah and Linda Hurcombe met at the first workshop. Linda was struck by Hanaa’s use of archaeological references and her ‘ruins technique’ whilst Hanaa was interested in Linda’s experimental archaeological research with plant materials, so the two agreed to collaborate on some artwork for the second workshop. Each brought some ideas to the collaboration and over the course of a few days produced the artwork on show. This was greatly aided by the kind loan of the objects collected by Martin Bell from his years as a foreign correspondent. Elena Isayev facilitated much of this work by helping gather materials of all kinds.