Our knowledge of the past forms the backdrop to our present existence. It is a legacy that remains, our history. It is also the present that serves as a framework, allowing us to interpret this legacy, creating a potentially malleable history through a process of knowledge production, reception and interpretation. This is where the museum becomes a place that provides a particular structure for looking at “culture,” a view of our past through the lens of the present. In the collaborative works of Perth artists Lia McKnight and Steven Armitstead, their joint practices explore these notions of perception and representation. Focusing on the ways in which we explain and understand the world as a journey of discovery, this body of work at the Subiaco Museum site encourages us to question the ways in which we reflect on our stories and the nature of finding meaning in our past. The artists focus and question in an engaging way what a museum is and what its role is in contemporary society. The suspended, luminous statements illuminate the surrounding walls and ask us to contemplate the ways in which museums function to tell our stories. They ask us to think about the museum's role in the production and preservation of cultural and personal knowledge, how it acts to document and reflect social change, and how, as an institutional place, 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 possibility, imagination and invention. At this point in the encounter our past becomes meaningful through an imagined relationship between our stores of knowledge and what is captured in the museum art…in the middle of the paper…process. Significantly, through this process, the museum itself becomes the artifact of the society in which it is inserted. The process of constructing and interpreting our past into recorded history becomes a revealing picture that describes our cultural inclinations. Artists rightly bring the complexities of this process to the foreground, highlighting the transitory and flexible nature of the ways in which we see, interpret and transform the world around us. Our desires to capture our past stories, feelings, and emotions become evident through the embodiment of meaning in objects and through a creative and culturally significant process of re-imagining and remembering. McKnight and Armitstead's work celebrates this process through a series of wonderfully playful and delicate gestures that shed light on the complex ways we make sense of the world.