States of Flow

Throughout this series of looping and flowing sculptures the eye is led around the form, until it comes to rest once more where it started. Sometimes the trajectory has the feel of an eccentric orbit in space that gives little concession to gravity and earthly physics–Cassini, Riccioli and Fermion hardly seem to be made of solid marble at all.

The simplest loops seen in Ennis and Tarne are playing with the conceit that thinner sections might be affected by gravity. This becomes a sort of visual haiku for me, where the perfect balance is sought but remains forever elusive.

In Melvi and Atol the thinner sections seem inclined to twist and give the sculptures a figurative aspect. Whereas Moro, Metherel, Moy and Don repeat a form around a circle. Theirs twists, or pebble forms, animating the marble and framing what might lie behind.