For Echo of the Inside (Column Cube I), part of an ongoing series, a single mold of a pure cube is repetitively cut, torn, yanked, and coaxed off each successive casting. The same mold is re-pieced together to make consecutively smaller and distorted cuboids, until there is nothing left to suture or to cast into. That is to say, until the seams, shrinkage, gravity-induced distortions and reductions overwhelm the initial form into nothing. It is an affirmative act of destruction. The resulting cubes are stacked into a column that tapers into the air above or settles into the ground below.
From the Shrinking and Disappearing Series, 2005-present.
The Shrinking and Disappearing series is an examination of the structure of making, especially of making sculpture and space. Often, as in Echo of the Inside, the work utilizes a chosen form for a mold that with each successive sculpture deflates and evacuates itself like a paradoxically gravity-bound balloon. The formwork diminishes to a point of failure: eventually, it forms nothing. Sometimes the process eliminates the task of creation, concentrating instead on the processes involved, drawing attention both to the urge to make, to unmake, and to eliminate.
EXHIBITIONS include:
India Art Fair, Delhi Frieze Art Fair, London Quarantania, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
