The following brief explanation was contained in the booklet produced to accompany a Retrospective of Lenkiewicz's work in 1997.
This was a smaller project, and like a number of other projects not all the work was completed or exhibited. Lenkiewicz wrote:
"The inert, the inanimate, is a metaphor for silence. It began with empty chairs, presence and absence. Paintings are still-lives."
He continued:
"Children vitalise the inanimate in a thousand ways; that pullover dark against the back of the door, the door handle, yes it is moving, that lightbulb, that shadow. This remains with us; anything stared at long enough springs to life."