Installed Door Piece — Islington Arts Factory
Loops of black cord hang from a beam. A mast holds them away from the barely visible doorway. My shadow occupies the space mote than anything else. The piece is mostly air.
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Test for Door Piece at the Cowshed, MDX
Green rope strung from an offcut of plywood across the workshop, testing weight and drop before committing to the gallery. The institutional clutter in the background is not incidental — this is where the work gets made.
Early Stamp for Marking Work — My Initials
A stamp made from my initials, pulled in purple — the 23 radiating lines giving it more energy than a mark of ownership has any right to have. Used it for a while, then didn’t.
6×6 (Gravity Shackles) at Rhizomatic in Southall
6 lengths of rope hung from the roof of the warehouse, each one sweeping down and back up in a long arc — the space between them as much a part of it as the rope itself. The industrial light…
Blessed? Light Piece
A light box on the floor, casting the word “BLESSED” onto the wall at an angle — the question mark in the title doing most of the work. Whether it lands as benediction or irony depends entirely on where you’re…
The Box Family — Board with Frosted Acrylic, Copper and Light
The orange light, a function of the copper interior, housed inside the cardboard box, the acrylic face glowing against the dark. The box doing more work than a box usually has to.
Another View of the Box Family with Light
The same piece emerging into the light itself, the ambient light washing out at the edges — the shadow of something cast onto the face of the acrylic. A quieter version of the same idea.
Nesting Cardboard Box Family
Five corrugated cardboard boxes made to nest inside each other, each one a slightly different proportion to the last. The exposed flute at every edge is the whole point — these are not trying to look like anything other than…
5 Boxes — a State of Mind
Five versions of the same basic form lined up in order — cardboard, card, and lead — each one a similar idea in a different material or manner. A question about what a box actually is.
First Box — This Time in the Photo Studio
The same box, properly photographed — plain paper wrapping, string, white background. The studio version of a thing that had previously only existed on a worktop.