'Guest Holes' was instigated through a member of our group buying 12 photographs at a car boot sale in Budapest, Hungary. The images were acquired as a batch, with no indication of author, title, date or any archival context that could help place them.

Our group writes to prompts as its art fiction method. Each member suggests a text, image, sound, place (the prompts are always evolving) and the group participants respond individually in writing. The texts are then collectively discussed. We approach this as a radical archival gesture for thinking about how knowledge exists, is presented, animated, reconfigured, and how we might expand the process through altering the conventions of knowledge. Language and its deployment are key, and the group use the language of fiction to write syntactically to the possibilities of 'found' objects and beginnings.

For the prompt of 12 photographs, the independently produced texts overlapped on themes of loss and displacement, fear and excavational brutality. A guest is rarely comfortable where they are. A hole is a place of altered dimensions, a depression from the norm. The prompt invited experimentation with dialogue and with the adequacy of familiar descriptive terms to convey the loss of context that the images themselves prompted. Our response was to build 'Guest Holes' which we see as an artwork.