This sculpture was created by bending and coiling annealed steel wire. It explores the visual structures of vessels as containers, places, entities or interors from which things emerge and find shelter; these are transient sources of energy perturbed by collisions ranging from the subatomic to the cosmic, from the visceral to the imaginary. It is simultaneously a lysing bacteria and a supernova explosion, the gaping mouth of an anglerfish and the nest of a weaverbird.
The choice of a single material to foster a plethora of scale and visual associations is revealing of the transformative potential that lies within matter in the aftermath of intimate manual intervention.
This piece is the sculptural outcome of introspecting on cataclysmic becomings as personal cosmology, and on why we, as human beings, still and have always searched for where we come from by looking towards the skies, by looking towards our distant past.
Obscure lines strewn across space
coalesce as nodes
diverge as antennae
born from filaments
of vagabond dreams.