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Eamon King’s work highlights the found action and understanding behind a given object or surface, primarily focusing on those synonymous with construction paint markings. These markings indicate what cannot be seen behind a surface, usually indicating direction and movement along with materiality and substance. The materiality of these surfaces and adjacent objects are paired with a metaphysical timeline of choices that play into the role of knowledge, either by the object or imposed upon itself. Once an action is identified, King applies their ambiguity in mark and significance to other familiar objects and actions in any given surrounding. Through the understanding, exploration and mimicry of these extracted found actions with similar yet alternative mediums such as plastic, metal, aerosol based paint and other found objects, there is more to offer than just the present interpretation of such an object subject to its surrounding. The action behind an object is now a problem of locating a mean between knowledge and ignorance once placed on or within a separate material. In undermining the initial purpose of these industrial markings and objects along with their respective action, he analyzes their transitory state of insignificance to align his personal understanding of familiarity in objectivity of the everyday setting.