 is a cultural analogue to a gene: a form that is transmitted in thought or behaviour from one body to another, responding to conditional environments, self-replicating and capable of mutation.

 were made in 2009: small solid iron works which use a geometric formal language of 27 blocks to articulate a range of 33 body postures.

, extend the blocker volumes in three axes towards the context of the built world. Placed directly on the floor, they become acupuncture points within the volume of the space, allowing the viewer to become conscious, through the disparity of scale, of his/her own mass and spatial displacement as s/he moves around and amongst the works.

Double Extended Memes

, 2011, cast iron, 38.4 × 52.9 × 20.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model

, 2011, cast iron, 38.4 × 24 × 51 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model II

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 40 × 99 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Tend Model I

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 61 × 93 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Tend Model II

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 78 × 80 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Tend Model III

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 33 × 53 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model III

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 90 × 44.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model IV

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 86.5 × 44 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model V

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 87 × 20.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Front Model I

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 27.5 × 28.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model VI

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 49 × 32 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model VII

, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 92 × 61 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Dress Model I

, 2012, cast iron, 59 × 39.5 × 44 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Hinge Model VIII

X, 2012, cast iron, 37 × 70.5 × 41 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Double Extended Memes

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