A School For Trespassing

My practice explores the viscosity of space and fluid bodies through cutting space in metal and textiles. I use two approaches to forming sheet material – cutting and folding; stretching and shrinking. When using the English wheel, the process happens within arm’s reach – the form is determined between the capacities of the machine and my body. This becomes a metaphor for making architecture – creating an architectural body with my own body. The making process involves slowness, patience, physical tension and haste. Bending, stretching and cutting then have a figurative and metaphorical appearance in the architectural work. Relationships in space and time cut through, lap over and stretch each other.

I propose a school for trespassing in Coombefield Quarry, Portland. Studies undertaken relate to land access (botany, horticulture and ornithology) but at a deeper level the school acts as a testing ground to rehearse trespassing, learning how to practically overcome boundaries. Built in cast concrete and explosion formed steel/ aluminium on site, parts of the building are moveable allowing it to change its affiliations, and the entire construction acts as trespass apparatus.

Fluid Anatomy