prehistoric 2005 approx 60cm x 45cm x 90cm Timber, umbrella tree branches, metal plate, synthetic fibre, light fitting

My sculptural practice is informed by similar interests and processes to my photomedia practice: I take objects discarded by humans, or plants, as raw material and assemble them into semi-organic forms. They are made for living spaces, where their placement is intended to invoke awareness of our connection with the ecosystems we are embedded in,and supported by. The materials, like the found objects in document|monument , are found locally, 'made in suburbia' from suburban stuff. Light as sculptural element is diametrically opposed to the photographic concept of 'drawing with light', light sculptures provide their own light to be viewed by, casting it onto viewer and surrounding space, drawing with shadows. Light is metaphor for life, growth and consciousness: Our body's cells constantly absorb, store and emit light. Light inside the organic shape is partly the attempt to create an artefact of contemporary culture, like artefacts in traditional cultures combined the practical purpose of a 'tool' with a decorative element that placed it within the relevant folklore or mythology. In this case the mythology might be evolution and quantum mechanics in a Newtonian/Einsteinian universe.