 were a way of translating the volumes of the Sajdah position (the third in the Muslim sequence of prayer). Here, the head is placed against the ground and the body is reduced to the minimum space it can occupy. Initially made as connected massive individual blocks, these works went on to inform all of the later STOP works.

Lead seemed an appropriate medium to use: the dead weight not only assures a grounded-ness, but it also allows the weight of the individual blocks to be the principal of construction.

Lead Blockworks

Small Stop (Lead) II, Small Stop (Lead) III, Small Stop (Lead)

, 2015, lead, dimensions variable. Photograph by Ben Westoby, White Cube.

Small Stop (Lead) II, Small Stop (Lead) III, Small Stop (Lead) and Small Stop (Lead) IV

, 2015, lead, 26.7 × 40.1 × 23.2 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Small Stop (Assembled Lead Blocks)

 2015, lead, 22 × 22.8 × 40.4 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Small Stop (Lead) III

, 2015, lead, 22 × 24.2 × 40.1 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Small Stop (Lead) VI

, 2015, lead, 25 × 23 × 27.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Small Stop (Lead) IV

, 2015, lead, 23 × 21 × 42.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White, London.

Small Stop (Lead) VII

, 2015, lead, 27 × 23.5 × 40 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

Small Stop (Lead)

, 2016, lead, 24 × 23.5 × 42.5 cm. Photograph by Stephen White & Co.

Lead Blockworks

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