Whilst you were gone
Installation. Monofilament wrapped bandsaw, 2004
Thinking about behaviour, the patterns of our daily lives, the continual dance we enact with the 'stuff' that surrounds us, the repetition of our thought as well as our actions. This work employs yards and yards of mono-filament, to infest, infect, bind, hold, pick out a space and objects in a playful, wilfully neurotic way.
The piece began in my partner's physical absence from his work shop and is an exploration of how it felt to miss the essence of someone - trying to evoke that person through the things that they commonly use - an attempt to physically bind yourself to their world. 'Whilst you were gone' is a work about time, repetition and pattern.