Our knowledge of the past serves as a backdrop to our present existence. It is a legacy left, our history. It is also the present that serves as a framework for us to interpret this heritage, creating a potentially malleable history through a process of producing, receiving and interpreting knowledge. It is here that the museum becomes a place offering a particular structure for looking at “culture”, a vision of our past through the prism of the present. In the collaborative works of Perth artists Lia McKnight and Steven Armitstead, their shared practices explore these notions of perception and representation. Focusing on how we explain and understand the world as a journey of discovery, this body of work from the Subiaco Museum site encourages us to question how we think about our stories and the nature of inquiry of meaning to our past. The artists highlight and challenge in an engaging way what a museum is and what its role is in contemporary society. The floating, luminous statements illuminate the surrounding walls and invite us to contemplate how museums work to tell our stories. They ask us to think about the role of the museum in producing and storing cultural and personal knowledge, how it documents and reflects social change, and how, as an institutional site, it mediates the relationship between personal and collective memories. It is perhaps through this act of mediation, between personal memories and shared collective experiences, that the museum becomes a place of possibilities, imagination and invention. At this point in the encounter, our past takes on meaning through an imagined relationship between our own repositories of knowledge and what is captured in the museum's art...in the middle of the paper process. Significantly, through this process, the museum itself becomes its own artifact of the society in which it is embedded. The process of constructing and interpreting our past into documented history becomes a revealing framework describing our cultural inclinations. The artists wisely foreground the complexities of this process, emphasizing the ephemeral and flexible nature of how we see, interpret and transform the world around us. Our desires to capture our past stories, feelings and emotions become apparent through the embodiment of meaning in objects and through a creative and culturally significant process of reimagining and remembering. McKnight and Armitstead's work celebrates this process through a series of wonderfully playful and delicate gestures that highlight the complex ways in which we make sense of the world..