With a fundamental interest in portraying randomly selected locations in painstaking and eerie detail, the Boyle Family visited derelict plots and building sites to reproduce slabs of reality, unencumbered by motive or emotion. The Fire Series was created on a demolition site in London in 1989. Writing about the exhibition Beyond Image: Boyle Family, at the Hayward Gallery in 1986, Mark Boyle wrote that their aim is, “To see if it is possible for us to look at the world or a small part of it, without being reminded consciously or unconsciously of myths and legends, art out of the past - or present, art and myths of other culture...”