Embedded in the processes through which I make and think is a fascination with the material properties of things. These accumulate into a mass of material objects and a variety of critical ideas. I pursue a tactile, affective, object-driven process, methodically exploring the material itself, flirting with language and investigating what things are in essence, or what they might become. The works are like material propositions; they occupy a physical space in the process of becoming something else.
During the Fellowship I aim to explore further the use of wood within my practice and continue to use the mobile as a catalyst for my installations.
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