As a young girl with a unique paranoia of explosions, Parker analyzes on the regeneration of history's past through the demolition of homes, buildings, and all places where culture and life may once have resided. She is best known for Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991).
“I resurrect things that have been killed off... My work is all about the potential of materials - even when it looks like they've lost all possibilities.”
“It's a modern condition: the threat of bomb scares, and the fear it symbolizes. From seeing explosions on the news and all the time in films you sort of think you know what they are, but really your firsthand knowledge of it is very limited. I realized I'd never walked through the detritus of a bombed-out building."
