 works are an attempt to reconcile the limitations of an internal dark body space with space at large so that continuity might be felt. They have to be self-supporting, while being as open as possible leaving the body boundary porous and relations of the back to the front paradoxical.

In comparison to the seemingly regular grids in the 

, including the highly reduced measures of the 

avoid any regular horizontal or vertical interval. I am thinking of the 'Pier and Ocean' series of Mondrian that reconcile the action of light on water and the relationship of horizon to a vertical field of vision. Mondrian expresses an attitude to space that is both intrinsic to the elemental world while also speaking to the realities of an expanding universe.

 try to objectify an experience of space, light and time. A scaffold is a structure that supports weight and is also associated in the past with death, but I think of these works as antennae or aerials for life – transmitting the truth of a particular lived moment to other conscious bodies and having the potential to be a catalystto explore the space/time contained within a body.

Scaffolds

, 2014, 3 mm square section stainless steel bar, 230 × 152 × 126 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Weave

, 2015, 4 mm square section stainless steel bar, 198 × 46 × 36 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Scaffold

, 2017, 5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 197.5 × 50.5 × 36.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Scaffold II

, 2017, 4 mm square section stainless steel bar, 161.7 × 69.5 × 82.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.


Steep

, 2017, 4 mm square section stainless steel bar, 192.5 × 52.5 × 40 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Scaffold V

, 2017, 5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 192.8 × 47.2 × 35.8 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Scaffold IV

, 2017, 5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 194.5 × 48 × 49.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Scaffold VI

, 2017, 5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 197.5 × 52.5 × 36.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Scaffold XII

, 2018, 5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 192.8 × 50.5 × 41.1 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Scaffold XVI

 2018, 5 mm square section stainless steel bar, 192.8 × 50.5 × 41 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

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