Cosmos: The Art of Observing Space

I'm exhibiting a new concrete work for this exhibition, Passage, which explores extremes of time and transience. The sculpture’s cave-like void is the negative cast of an ancient and now absent rock circa 300mya, exact in every minute and textured detail. In contrast, its angled noontide shadow records the most fleeting and ephemeral moment when the sun was at its zenith on the equinox, linking us to the past through the present and connecting us to something larger than ourselves. In essence it makes the fourth dimension, three dimensional, developing our perception of the cosmos and our relationship to it.

To balance the weight and presence of the sculpture Passage, I am also showing a set of durational day drawings as one work, titled Orbit. Tracing the shifting shadows of a solitary stone between sunrise and sunset, these were drawn at equal intervals over a twelve-month period. These process-based drawings were made in, of and about the landscape - the result of a particular set of conditions, in a particular place, over a particular span of time. They record celestial time, geological time and human time as well as the weather patterns unique to that day and site: a meditation on time and space. I returned each month to the same location, using the same stone and orientation to map the path of planet Earth as it orbits the sun through the year.