was, is, will be

My fascination with knots and their materials began eight years ago and my collection of found knots has grown and has been used for a micro-residency at Harrington Mill Studios, Nottingham. Individual strands of rope became functioning sculptural objects through the hand of somebody, somewhere, for a purpose unknown and who eventually discarded them. Here, the collection (with all that the word, collection implies), which has been constructed into a rope, a functioning rope consisting of linking knots together in whatever way could be found, each join exhibiting tension. The resulting rope is a highly sculptural object that, at the same time, displays a fluidity that is both defined and undefined, a fragility caused through its history as well as its reconstruction. Its display as a looped, twisting structure seeks to dissolve form and structure. Light creates shadows thus dislocating the real from the imaginary.