This work was made during my residency at Watts Gallery, it is part of my response to an exhibition there which focussed on the poet Christina Rossetti.
The title Solid State refers to finished work, and the process of arresting fluid ideas and fixing them in position so that they can move forward in time.
This piece has two parts. pictured here is the three dimensional part.
The other half of this piece is in video form and was made at the same time. It’s concerned with the materialisation of words and the effort to sequence them. The struggle to organise and construct meaning and give rise to more than a sum of parts.