Willow, Beech Form

In a lot of sense the whole reasoning of my work is the binding and belonging of us as individuals to each other and the environment we inhabit; the physicality and realness of this existence. By binding an environment with materials this in itself draws awareness to the space. With the influence of releasing encased stones at Scarr Reservoir (See Mark Making and Presence within the Landscape blog) I acquired some old bleached willow and along with Beech twigs bound them together to produce a domed like form.

Attaching the form to the environment (the studio space) made the form itself more physical and real, drawing attention to the space it inhabits. It now appears as a kind of parasite, an entity that does not belong there, a form, feeding off another. Technology feeding off humanity?????!!!!