Working from photos has been a big part of my practise for many years, but they are normally old photos and primarily from my family archive. Recording my Mum’s home was really the first time I had used photographs as a tool to create an archive, because in hindsight, that is exactly what i did. I was aware I was making a body of work but as it was such a personal one the idea of making it public wasn’t one that I considered at the time. I began taking images with my phone in