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This is a place on my street, a building site, in between the culture centre for music and drama, and another building which includes a hairdresser, pharmacy and the post office at the corner. This place used to be a house, or a block of flats I think. The company building there (they are just at the foundation stage now) have an advertisement on the street for new flats, in this future building, which will keep the old facade, as keeping with regulations.

I went inside this vast hole on a day during the week when most of the builders had finished for the day, just one man was still welding a big pipe and one man who was maybe the security guard. He didn't stop me, he said something but we didn't understand and he didn't seem to care. I wanted to go deep inside as far as possible without being too near the edges, to do a short dance. The dance was an attempt to feel the size of the hole around me, and to occupy the space that will be gradually built up and up with walls, floors, ceilings, levels.

It reminds me of going to a new supermarket where there used to an old one and the doors and aisles are in totally different places. I remember getting lost between the freezer aisles in Supermac in Belfast when I was very young. Supermac was demolished in 1994/5 when I was 8 or 9. When it was built in 1964 it was the first supermarket in Northern Ireland. Someone I know took some memorabilia from the demolition site, but I can't remember now if it was one of the letters from the plastic SUPERMAC sign, or a Supermac trolley. Anyway, the Forestside shopping complex was built on the site in 1997, housing Sainsbury's, Marks & Spencer, Boots, HMV, GAME, Dunnes Stores, Clarks Shoes, Monsoon, Accesorize, River Island, Warehouse, Carphone Warehouse, an underground carpark, and overground carpark, Toys'R'us, JJB Sports and more.