It travels like a wave, a ripple, an echo
Hand curved and shaped poplar, hand cast tinted resin, folded colour film, light.
36” x 20” x 2”
2021-2023
It travels like a wave, a ripple, an echo (2021-23) is a durational kinetic sculpture that responds to time, architecture and light. Illuminated by moving sunlight, or static artificial light, this sculptural form throws latent imagery and shadows on surrounding surfaces of the space it occupies. The curved half-circle shape reflects on the floor or the wall surrounding it; it's traced shadow completing the circular form. The curved overlapping shaped apertures also become portals in which to look through; reframing space in the subtleties of colour and texture of the cast resin. In this ethereal and durational sculpture I explore material sensibilities such as weightlessness, transparency, opacity, time, balance, and motion. Like a lens, It Travels Like a Wave, a Ripple, an Echo (2021-23) is related to my photographs in that it relies on the material staples of photography - light and time - to be experienced. Ultimately this work is a study on the passage of time, the ephemeral qualities of light, how it affects familiar spaces, the body, and our perception of time, and what this does to memory and immediate experience.