My practice is concerned with Objects in flow, and in conversation. In conversation with myself, with each other,  with a space or with a time.

 

In the world we live in there is a constant ebb and flow of objects and events all around us, we interact with this tide daily and often in doing so change the trajectories of matter in the world, like quantum particles bouncing around, breaking and creating bonds, gravitation towards each other or colliding and sending each other in opposite directions. This flow of matter and energy in the world adds to our experience and lets us attempt to build up a picture of the reality in which we live. Creating a referencing system in our mind through memory of these objects and events, to cross examine what we see, and what we know, the visible world and the intelligible world, to try and determine with our rational minds an image of the world in which we live.

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I feel that thinking about the nature of reality and the intensity of some of the thought processes surrounding the topic if often overwhelming. Stripping this all back to the simple action of collecting objects for their colour, their shape, their association with other objects is a way to ground my practice in a very tactile way. 

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The process of collecting is important to my work and is the foundation from which i build my ideas and facilitate the conversations between objects in a space and a a time. Bricks taken from a tumbled building, a plank of wood with a lick of pink paint on it dug out of a skip, an unusual stone on the beach, a bright green plastic tub under a parked car. I collect, carry and respond to these discarded objects I arrange them over and over to give them new found purpose.  Relationships between objects may develop over time. The space between objects may be as important as the objects themselves. The objects are notes in an arrangement, the sound of the piece determined by the silence between chords.

 

I respond to materials, spaces and time.